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Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age

Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics

By: Robert Bowman Bruce

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Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age

Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics

By: Robert Bowman Bruce

Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic World explores the tactics and strategy required to win battles with the technology available during the Napoleonic period (1789-1815), and points out how the development of such weapons technology changed the face of the battlefield. Divided into five sections it highlights: - Individual components of the armies: the foot soldier, the cavalryman and the artilleryman, the equipment they wore and used, and how they fought together. - Technology change, the emergence of military professionalism, and the impact these changes had on the battlefield. - How units were used together on the battlefield, and strategic positioning of battle units. - Specialist techniques and equipment developed for artillery. - Naval warfare, from the ships in which the men fought to the weapons they carried.

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312

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Macmillan

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0312375875

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9780312375874

Petain

Verdun to Vichy

By: Robert Bowman Bruce

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Petain

Verdun to Vichy

By: Robert Bowman Bruce

Few figures in modern French history have aroused more controversy than Marshal Philippe Pétain, who rose from obscurity to great fame in the First World War only to fall into infamy during the dark days of Nazi occupation in World War II. Pétain's brilliant theories of firepower and flexible defense, as well as his deep empathy for the soldiers of France and the horrific trials they endured on a daily basis, mark him as one of the greatest Allied generals of World War I. Yet today he is best remembered as the nearly senile marshal who was handed the reins of power in France in the midst of the disastrous 1940 campaign and tasked with seeking terms from Nazi Germany. His leadership of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944 and his postwar conviction of treason and lifetime exile to the Ile d'Yeu made him a scapegoat for the nation. This later perception forever tainted Pétain's military reputation as a soldier who served France his entire life and led the French Army through the crucible of Verdun, the morale crisis of 1917, and on to final victory in the Great War. He was despised for his actions as an octogenarian in June 1940. With the bulk of the French Army already destroyed and Paris itself wide-open to attack, Pétain, then eighty-four, immediately sought an armistice with Germany to halt further bloodshed. While others fled, Pétain took what he considered the braver course by staying and doing what he could to safeguard the remnants of his army and his nation. So began his descent into collaboration, treason, and the destruction of all that he had accomplished and stood for throughout his life.

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190

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1612340687

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9781612340685

Grayson's Diseases of the Cornea

By: Robert C. Arffa,Merrill Grayson

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Grayson's Diseases of the Cornea

By: Robert C. Arffa,Merrill Grayson

Extensively revised and expanded, this classic reference is now more clinically useful than ever before. It has been updated to include the most current topics, such as infectious scleritis, corneal topography analysis, and differential diagnosis of conjunctivitis and corneal disease, to name just a few. Beautifully illustrated, it contains nearly 600 photographs and detailed line drawings, with more than 200 in full color. With publication of the new fourth edition, it remains the ideal practical overview on corneal diseases for the practicing ophthalmologist. * Fully updated and greatly expanded to bring the reader of this classic text up to date. * Completely updated references include the most current sources, while other, less useful references have been deleted to maintain brevity and clinical relevance. * More illustrations (including many in full color) than any other mid-sized text. Spanish version also available, ISBN: 84-8174-343-7

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782

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Elsevier España

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8481743437

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9788481743432

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