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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986. xiv, 557 p.: heavily illustrated; 24 cm. (9½ inches). Dark green cloth over boards, with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. First American edition. Includes chronology, appendices, references, select bibliography, and index. "Combining scholarship with a vivid narrative," Gates chronicles "a war of unexpected savagery, of carnage at times so great as to be comparable to the First World War. But it was also a guerilla war, fought on beautiful but difficult terrain, where problems of supply loomed large" [from the dust jacket]. A marvelous book about the war between the British and Napoleonic France in Spain and Portugal. In Fine/Near Fine condition: dust jacket slightly rubbed at head of spine.. First American Edition. Fine/Near Fine.
London, Eng.: Arnold, 1996. A volume in the Modern Wars Series, under the general editorship of Hans Strachan. xvii, 286 p.: 9 in-text and full-page maps; 23¼ cm. (9¼ inches). Paperback with color illustrated front cover. Includes index. "The French Revolutionaries waged total war. Mobilising the largest army yet seen in Europe, they conquered most of the continent with amazing speed. Their war was a war of movement, aggression and action, punctuated by some of the most dramatic battles in military history--Valmy, Jemappes, Fleurus, Arcola, Marengo and Hohenlinden, to name only a few. They also sought ideological conquest, forcing the people they liberated to be free in the French manner whether they liked it or not. The military and political progress of the revolutionary armies is narrated and analysed in this important new study, with special attention paid to the legacy of the old regime, the remarkable resilience displayed by the old regime powers, the reasons for the revolutionaries' success on land--and the reasons for their failure at sea" [from the back cover]. ISBN 0-340-56911-5. A terrific, scarce, recent study of the wars fought by the French revolutionary government and by Napoleon before becoming Emperor. Book is in Fine/As New Condition.. Fine.
New York: Routledge, 1991. ix, [3], 512 p.: 17 full-page, double-page, and in-text maps; 21½ cm. (8½ inches). Paperback with color illustrated front cover. Includes notes on sources, select bibliography, and index. The Franco-Prussian War was one of the most dramatic and decisive conflicts in the history of Europe. It transformed not only the states-system of the Continent, but the whole climate of European moral and political thought. The overwhelming triumph of German military might, evoking general admiration and imitation, introduced an era of power politics which was to reach its disastrous climax in 1914 [from the back cover]. ISBN 0-415-02787-X. The seminal work on the Franco-Prussian War! Book is in Very Good+ Condition: front cover along fore-edge darkened; fore-edges slightly soiled. . Very Good+.