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The Soldier at War : from the Age of Napoleon to the Second World War
出版Sutton, 1998
主題Biography & Autobiography / MilitaryHistory / Military / PictorialTechnology & Engineering / Military Science
ISBN07509141309780750914130
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tsDeAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This is the story of the fighting man - the soldier, the sailor and latterly the airman - from the age of Napoleon in the late eighteenth century to the dawn of the nuclear age 150 years later at the end of the Second World War. This period in recent history saw huge changes in the size and scale of armed conflict; it was the age of the great technology race, as nations sought to outdo one another in modernisation of weaponry, and to harness national budgets and workforces in the mass production of weapons. The Fighting Man reveals the lifestyles of the men who served and fought for their respective countries, ranging from a sans-culotte in the Revolutionary Wars to an American GI on D-Day. It examines the fighting tactics they adopted, and looks at the rapid and far-reaching technological advances in the weaponry they used.