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The nineteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neiberg, Michael S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, [2006]
Series:Soldiers' lives through history.
Subjects:
Soldiers > History > 19th century.
Sociology, Military > Europe > History > 19th century.
Military art and science > Europe > History > 19th century.
Soldiers > History > 20th century.
Sociology, Military > Europe > History > 20th century.
Military art and science > Europe > History > 20th century.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • I. The age of men: from the French Revolution to German unification
  • Recruitment, evasion, and desertion
  • Training and leadership
  • Weapons, uniforms, and daily needs
  • "Seeing the elephant" : soldiers and the nineteenth-century battlefield
  • II. The age of machines: from 1871 to 1918
  • Recruitment, evasion, and desertion
  • Training, leadership, discipline, and mutiny
  • Weapons, uniforms, and daily needs
  • Soldiers and the modern battlefield
  • Conclusion.