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200 10$aVauban under siege$b[electronic resource] $eengineering efficiency and martial vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession /$fby Jamel Ostwald
210   $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cBrill$d2007
215   $a1 online resource (407 p.)
225 1 $aHistory of warfare ;$vv. 41
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [371]-381) and index.
327   $tPreliminary Materials /$rJ. Ostwald -- $tChapter One. Introduction /$rJ. Ostwald -- $tChapter Two. The Perfect Siege Of Ath 1697 /$rJ. Ostwald -- $tChapter Three. Efficiency And The Perfect Siege /$rJ. Ostwald -- $tChapter Four. The Transitional War Of The Spanish Succession /$rJ. Ostwald -- $tChapter Five. Implementing The Paradigm Siege /$rJ. Ostwald -- $tChapter Six. Contesting The Paradigm Siege /$rJ. Ostwald -- $tChapter Seven. Vigor: An Alternative Paradigm /$rJ. Ostwald -- $tChapter Eight. Succeeding With Vigor /$rJ. Ostwald -- $tChapter Nine. The Vigorous Future /$rJ. Ostwald -- $tAppendices /$rJ. Ostwald -- $tBibliography /$rJ. Ostwald -- $tIndex /$rJ. Ostwald.
330   $aVauban under Siege is the first systematic comparison of the theory of Vaubanian siegecraft with its reality. It places Vauban?s siege accomplishments back into their broader context, highlighting his continuation of the quest for ever-greater efficiency pursued by a century of military engineers. Based on a comprehensive inventory of sieges in the War of the Spanish Succession, it describes how both French and Allied military officers rejected this efficiency paradigm and embraced instead vigorous brute force tactics. Ignoring their over-worked and under-compensated engineers at key points, generals chose to save precious campaign time by sacrificing their soldiers? lives in siege after siege. This early modern cult of the offensive has influenced the Western way of war ever since. Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military History.
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