دانلود کتاب The age of battles: the quest for decisive warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo

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Frontmatter\nINTRODUCTION (page xi)\nNOTE ON DATES (page xix)\nPart One THE PROFESSION OF OFFICERSHIP AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN WAR\n CHAPTER ONE The Return of the Legions: Gustavus Adolphus and Breitenfeld (page 3)\n CHAPTER TWO The Limits of the New Legions: Lützen and After (page 24)\n CHAPTER THREE Under the Lily Banners: Rocroi (page 37)\n CHAPTER FOUR The Army of the Sun King (page 45)\n CHAPTER FIVE Marlborough\'s Battles: Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, and Malplaquet (page 73)\n CHAPTER SIX The Emergence of the Great Powers of Eastern Europe (page 105)\n CHAPTER SEVEN The Rise of Naval Power (page 131)\nPart Two THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: THE CLASSICAL EPOCH OF MODERN WAR\n CHAPTER EIGHT The Battles of Frederick the Great (page 167)\n CHAPTER NINE The French and British Armed Forces from the Rhine to the St. Lawrence (page 196)\n CHAPTER TEN Toward Wars of Nations: The War of American Independence (page 232)\n CHAPTER ELEVEN Prelude to Revolution (page 256)\nPart Three THUNDERSTROKES OF BATTLE: THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC WARS\n CHAPTER TWELVE The French Revolution: Transformation and Continuity in War (page 279)\n CHAPTER THIRTEEN Sea Power and Empire (page 313)\n CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Climax of Napoleonic War: To Austerlitz and Jena-Auerstädt (page 354)\n CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Gradual Eclipse of the Battle of Annihilation; The Rise of the War of Attrition (page 399)\n CHAPTER SIXTEEN Campaigns of Exhaustion and Attrition (page 435)\n CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Resurgence of Military Professionalism (page 457)\n CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Downfall of Genius (page 483)\n CHAPTER NINETEEN The End of an Age: Waterloo (page 513)\n CHAPTER TWENTY On the Future of War (page 536)\nBIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES (page 545)\nINDEX (page 559)