The First Total WarA mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA). The twentieth century is usually seen as \"the century of total war.\" But as the historian David Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons, and sailing shipsin the age of Napoleon. In a sweeping,

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