Military Manners and CustomsChatto & Windus, 1885 - 284 páginas |
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... books like Grose's ' Military Antiquities , ' one would think their writers were dealing with the manners , not of ... Book , containing the reports ( less full than one might wish ) of the Military International Conference that met at ...
... books like Grose's ' Military Antiquities , ' one would think their writers were dealing with the manners , not of ... Book , containing the reports ( less full than one might wish ) of the Military International Conference that met at ...
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... book . It is to be regretted that such a work , in- structive as it is beyond any other on the subject , has never been printed in a form more popular than its official dress . It was from it that I first conceived the idea of the ...
... book . It is to be regretted that such a work , in- structive as it is beyond any other on the subject , has never been printed in a form more popular than its official dress . It was from it that I first conceived the idea of the ...
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... books or in the finer imaginations of a few , far more often than in the real life of the battle - field . The plea of shortening the horrors of war is always the plea for carrying them to an extreme ; as by Louvois for devastating the ...
... books or in the finer imaginations of a few , far more often than in the real life of the battle - field . The plea of shortening the horrors of war is always the plea for carrying them to an extreme ; as by Louvois for devastating the ...
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... books for the facts of the battle - field ( so far as they are ever told in full ) , we may perhaps lay down the following as the most important laws of modern warfare : 1. You may not use explosive bullets ; but you may use conical ...
... books for the facts of the battle - field ( so far as they are ever told in full ) , we may perhaps lay down the following as the most important laws of modern warfare : 1. You may not use explosive bullets ; but you may use conical ...
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... book is out of print , but may be seen at the British Museum , under the title , ' Prussia -- Army of . ' It is to be re- gretted that , whilst every book , however dull , relating to that war has been translated into English , this ...
... book is out of print , but may be seen at the British Museum , under the title , ' Prussia -- Army of . ' It is to be re- gretted that , whilst every book , however dull , relating to that war has been translated into English , this ...
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