The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo
- ISBN-10
- 0253217075
- ISBN-13
- 9780253217073
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 579
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Author
- Russell F. Weigley
Description
" --Allan R. Millett, The Journal of American History
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