The First Total War
Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
by David A. Bell
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appears in French Revolution, History, and Nonfiction.
The twentieth century is usually seen as ?the century of total war,? but as the historian David Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the age of Napoleon. Bell takes us from campaigns of ?extermination? in the bloodsoaked fields of western France to savage street fighting in ruined Spanish cities to cent...
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