The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It by David A. Bell

The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

David A. Bell

432 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 acutally began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons, and sailing ships -- in the age of Napol...

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