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- catalog abstract "More than one hundred fifty distinguished military historians, biographers, and journalists contributed nearly six hundred articles to The Reader's Companion to Military History. The result is an extraordinary chronicle of warfare that combines compelling historical narrative with the best of contemporary scholarship. Filled with surprising anecdotes, little-known facts, and rare illustrations, the volume provides essential information on major events and battles. Commanders, theorists, weaponry and technology, and strategy and tactics. Especially distinctive is the broad spectrum of its thematic articles. Topics include courage, discipline, the effects of weather on warfare, strategy, the role of propaganda, espionage, the use of animals in war, the evolution of uniforms, disposal of the dead, mutiny, psychological warfare, and morale. The Readers's Companion is the first major reference work on military history to present a. Global perspective. No less comprehensive is its chronological scope, which ranges from the origins of warfare itself to the Persian Wars of 490 B.C. to ethnic cleansing, gays in the military, and the revelations of Robert McNamara.".
- catalog contributor b10018522.
- catalog contributor b10018523.
- catalog contributor b10018524.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Commanders, theorists, weaponry and technology, and strategy and tactics. Especially distinctive is the broad spectrum of its thematic articles. Topics include courage, discipline, the effects of weather on warfare, strategy, the role of propaganda, espionage, the use of animals in war, the evolution of uniforms, disposal of the dead, mutiny, psychological warfare, and morale. The Readers's Companion is the first major reference work on military history to present a.".
- catalog description "Global perspective. No less comprehensive is its chronological scope, which ranges from the origins of warfare itself to the Persian Wars of 490 B.C. to ethnic cleansing, gays in the military, and the revelations of Robert McNamara.".
- catalog description "More than one hundred fifty distinguished military historians, biographers, and journalists contributed nearly six hundred articles to The Reader's Companion to Military History. The result is an extraordinary chronicle of warfare that combines compelling historical narrative with the best of contemporary scholarship. Filled with surprising anecdotes, little-known facts, and rare illustrations, the volume provides essential information on major events and battles.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 573 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Reader's companion to military history.".
- catalog identifier "0395669693".
- catalog isFormatOf "Reader's companion to military history.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Houghton Mifflin,".
- catalog relation "Reader's companion to military history.".
- catalog subject "355/.009 20".
- catalog subject "Military history.".
- catalog subject "U27 .R348 1996".
- catalog title "The reader's companion to military history / Robert Cowley, Geoffrey Parker, editors.".
- catalog type "text".