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PublisherHelion & Company, The Limited

ISBN-101804515434

ISBN-139781804515433

eBay Product ID (ePID)17067068940

Product Key Features

Book TitleInfantry in Battle 1733-1783

Number of Pages244 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2025

TopicModern / 18th Century, Military Science

IllustratorYes

GenreTechnology & Engineering, History

AuthorAlexander S. Burns

Book SeriesFrom Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length0.4 in

Item Width0.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews...an important entry into the revisionist canon of works on contemporary warfare. It has broad appeal to historians, wargamers, reenactors, and enthusiasts alike. It is an invaluable work that belongs on shelves alongside those of Berkovich, the Mobiuses, Christy Pichichero, and, above all, Christopher Duffy.

Series Volume Number141

Dewey Decimal356.109033

Synopsis"...an important entry into the revisionist canon of works on contemporary warfare. It has broad appeal to historians, wargamers, reenactors, and enthusiasts alike. It is an invaluable work that belongs on shelves alongside those of Berkovich, the Mobiuses, Christy Pichichero, and, above all, Christopher Duffy." -Journal of Military History Infantry in Battle rewrites the story of combat in the eighteenth century by placing enlisted infantrymen and their experiences at centre stage. While popular memory and film portray these men as robotic automata they fought in flexible and adaptable ways, and they left their mark on eighteenth-century warfare.In Infantry in Battle , Dr Alexander S. Burns provides a new understanding of combat during the mid-eighteenth century: the pivotal period between 1733 and 1783. Professor Burns arguesthat eighteenth-century soldiers informally negotiated authority with their officers on the battlefield by firing without orders, firing at longer ranges than their officers preferred, and by taking cover on the battlefield. In this process, these enlisted men played an important role by asserting tactical reforms from below. Infantry in Battle is grounded in archival research on the American, British, and Prussian armies. However, it also covers the armies of military Europe more broadly, and includes writings from Austrian, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish soldiers. It is also the first English-language book to utilize archival material on battles from the War of Polish Succession in Northern Italy. Infantry in Battle is a scholarly monograph, but one written with a popular audience in mind. Like his mentor, the late Christopher Duffy, Professor Burns has longstanding connections to professional military education as well as wargamers and reenactors. Cutting through myth, we see motivated enlisted men who were capable of adapting their tactics to the needs of the battlefield, rather than terrorized automata firmly controlled by their officers.'The American researcher Alexander Burns is of a new generation, thoroughly at home with European archives and culture.' - Christopher Duffy

LC Classification NumberUD15.B8 2024