The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo

One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perhaps the ultimate futility, of war. --Gunther E. Rothenberg

[A] highly scholarly and wonderfully absorbing study. --John Bayley, The London Review of Books

What Russell F. Weigley writes, the rest of us read. The Age of Battles is a persuasive reminder that even in the age of 'rational' warfare, one can honestly wonder why war seemed an unavoidable policy choice. --Allan R. Millett, The Journal of American History

Author: Russell F. Weigley
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 04/28/2004
Pages: 579
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780253217073

About the Author

Russell F. Weigley (1930-2004) was Professor of History at Temple University and author of A Great Civil War (winner of the Lincoln Prize); The American Way of War; History of the United States Army; and Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945 (all published by IUP). He lived in Philadelphia.