The Military Experience In The Age Of Reason (1998) By Christopher Duffy
 
War in the 18th century was a bloody business. A line of infantry would slowly march, to the beat of a drum, into a hail of enemy fire. Whole ranks would be wiped out by cannon fire and musketry. How did they come to do it, and why? This volume discusses the brutalities of the battlefield, as well as the lives of the officer and the soldier from the formative conditions of their earliest years to their violent deaths or retirement. The book shows that, below their well-ordered exteriors, the armies of the Age of Reason underwent a revolutionary change from medieval to modern structures and ways of thinking.
 
Soft Cover
346 pages
In Good condition