This pioneering study focuses on the experiences and writings of the surprisingly large number of Prussian, British, and French military observers who witnessed the Civil War firsthand. Luvaas's fascinating account reveals why they came, what they wrote, what their armies learned (or failed to learn) from their reports, and how their writings influenced later European military theorists. For this edition, Luvaas has added a thoughtful introduction that analyzes why some "military lessons" are learned and others ignored and ...
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This pioneering study focuses on the experiences and writings of the surprisingly large number of Prussian, British, and French military observers who witnessed the Civil War firsthand. Luvaas's fascinating account reveals why they came, what they wrote, what their armies learned (or failed to learn) from their reports, and how their writings influenced later European military theorists. For this edition, Luvaas has added a thoughtful introduction that analyzes why some "military lessons" are learned and others ignored and examines the extent to which such lessons can be applied to subsequent conflicts.
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Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 253. 253 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. Owner's name and blind stamp on front end paper. Note: Light bump at head of spine along with light bump to lower corner back cover and pages.
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Good in Good jacket. xi, [1], 253, [5] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Appendices. Index. Tape stains inside flyleaf. DJ somewhat soiled & in plastic sleeve, plastic sleeve taped. Jay Luvaas was a scholar and teacher of military history for more than thirty years. He has taught at Allegheny College, the U.S. Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, and the U.S. Army War College, where he was the first Professor of Military History. "Napoleon on the Art of War" was the culmination of three decades of work. During his distinguished career, he served as the Director of the Flowers Collection of Southern Americana at Duke University Library, and as a long-time professor of history at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. He was the first civilian to be appointed as Visiting Professor of Military History at the United States Military Academy. He was honored in 1997 as a Distinguished Fellow of the Army War College. He twice received the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal from the Department of the Army for his many contributions to the educational mission of the U.S. Army. Jay Luvaas was one of America's leading military historians and published many notable books during his career, including The Education of An Army, Frederick the Great on the Art of War, Dear Miss Em, and Napoleon on the Art of War. He contributed to many other books as well. He also co-edited the highly popular series of U.S. Army War College Guides to many Civil War battlefields, including Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, and Chancellorsville. Derived from a review by Hugh Dubrulle: Few works about the American Civil War have aged as gracefully as Jay Luvaas's The Military Legacy of the Civil War: The European Inheritance. Since its publication in 1959, it has commanded widespread assent among historians. Luvaas asserts the Civil War "never exerted a direct influence upon military doctrine in Europe." Even the British, he claims, who scrutinized the Civil War more thoroughly than their continental counterparts, drew nothing from the American experience that warranted reconsidering prevailing military ideas. Indeed, like everyone else in Europe, the British saw only what they wished to see, lest their visions conflict with existing military doctrine. The limitations of a volunteer army produced by a democratic society-particularly the lack of leadership and discipline that resulted from egalitarianism-prevented the North from waging a limited war of skill. Instead, so the argument went, Federal military officials had waged a revolutionary war of nations, employing their superior weight in numbers and material to bludgeon the Confederacy. Instead of seeking to emulate this new style of warfare, they counseled that Britain ought to avoid it and the democracy that served as its foundation. During the war, a number of leading Radical figures and journals sought to stress the military strengths of the democratic North. Although these observers felt reluctant to endorse the destructive war of nations on which the Federals had embarked, they reveled in the invincibility of a democracy engaged in a revolutionary war of principle. The identity between people and state meant that a democratic society possessed much greater staying power, while the meritocracy that dominated such a society ensured that the best leaders would eventually rise to the top. These Radicals insisted that the Northern experience had proved not only that democracies could endure the strain of modern war, but that they would become unconquerable if they sustained a revolutionary idealism.
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