Battle : a history of combat and culture /
Lynn, John Albert, 1943- ,
Battle : a history of combat and culture / John A. Lynn. - xxv, 399 páginas : ilustraciones
Incluye bibliografía (p. 343-383).
Preface: Requiem for the universal soldier -- Written in blood : the classical Greek drama of battle and the western way of war -- Subtleties of violence : ancienct Chinese and Indian texts on warfare -- Chivalry and chevauchée : the ideal, the real, and the perfect in medieval European warfare -- Linear warfare : images and ideals of combat in the age of enlightenment -- Victories of the conquered : the native character of the Sepoy -- The sun of Austerlitz : romantic visions of decisive battle in nineteenth-century Europe -- The merciless fight : race and military culture in the Pacific War -- Crossing the Canal : Egyptian effectiveness and military culture in the October War -- Epilogue: Terrorism and ´evil´ : forming a new discourse on war at the dawn of the twenty-first century -- Appendix: The discourse and the reality of war : a cultural model.
0813333717
Guerra y sociedad.
Guerra.
Historia militar.
Sociología militar.
303.6609 / L989b 2003
Battle : a history of combat and culture / John A. Lynn. - xxv, 399 páginas : ilustraciones
Incluye bibliografía (p. 343-383).
Preface: Requiem for the universal soldier -- Written in blood : the classical Greek drama of battle and the western way of war -- Subtleties of violence : ancienct Chinese and Indian texts on warfare -- Chivalry and chevauchée : the ideal, the real, and the perfect in medieval European warfare -- Linear warfare : images and ideals of combat in the age of enlightenment -- Victories of the conquered : the native character of the Sepoy -- The sun of Austerlitz : romantic visions of decisive battle in nineteenth-century Europe -- The merciless fight : race and military culture in the Pacific War -- Crossing the Canal : Egyptian effectiveness and military culture in the October War -- Epilogue: Terrorism and ´evil´ : forming a new discourse on war at the dawn of the twenty-first century -- Appendix: The discourse and the reality of war : a cultural model.
0813333717
Guerra y sociedad.
Guerra.
Historia militar.
Sociología militar.
303.6609 / L989b 2003