Brent Nosworthy
Autor de The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War
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Obras de Brent Nosworthy
The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War (2003) — Autor — 169 copias
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A major point he makes is that grand tactics - the movement of bodies of troops across the across the battlefield - cannot be analyzed separately from the low-level tactics of how troops formed up in those bodies and how they used their weapons, because an army's abilities on the latter level determined what it can do on the former. Napoleonic grand tactics could only supplant their Linear predecessors because of low-level improvements.
The book quite readable and broadly convincing, although I lack the background in Napoleonics to judge the plausibility of many of Nosworthy's detailed arguments, and sometimes I could have used explanations in more depth. At a few points - notably regarding the utility of cuirass and lance for the cavalry - he seems to disagree wtih himself from chapter to chapter, which suggests the book could have been more tightly edited, but I noted few if any typographical errors.… (más)