How Wars Were Won
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Warner, George Townsend) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from How Wars Were Won: A Short Study of Napoleon´s Times In putting into book, form a course of lectures given to the elder half of the Officers´ Training Corps at Harrow, I have chiefly kept in mind the requirements of those who are beginning to fit themselves as soldiers - whether they intend to make the Army a career or merely to carry out a Britons duty of learning enough to be able to help his country, if the need should come. Almost invariably boys prefer military History to any other branch of that subject; not because it recounts deeds of heroism and so forth - though people are apt to think this, is the reason - but because it is new to them. There is, so much of the ordinary ground of history to be gone over that the time for exploration into outlying districts is scanty; and the path is often so trampled and worn as to become monotonous to the. ordinary boy. Yet the same boy will attend keenly to intricate details, and even to long explanations of how troops moved and marched, because it is a form of history which is fresh to him, because it gives him an opportunity to think, and because it induces him to believe that he is "learning" instead of "working." Every teacher knows this. It is therefore to be hoped that this book, which is intended to set out some main illustrations of the success of the French at the time when they were the great military nation - and the terror - of Europe, the reasons why they -were so formidable, and the circumstances in which they failed, may be useful to those who, either at school or elsewhere, are preparing to become soldiers. Military history certainly deserves a higher place than it has hitherto occupied. The study of strategy is not, indeed, the first step in a soldiers training. But there is much to be said in favour of the cultivation of the habit of searching for what it is that makes armies strong and generals victorious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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