Vauban under siege : engineering efficiency and martial vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession
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書誌事項
Vauban under siege : engineering efficiency and martial vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession
（History of warfare, v. 41）
Brill, 2007
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-381) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military History
Vauban under Siege is the first systematic comparison of the theory of Vaubanian siegecraft with its reality, contrasting military engineering's pursuit of the efficient siege with generals' contradictory search for rapid conquest, purchased at the cost of additional lives.
目次
Acknowledgements .. ix
List of Maps, Figures and Tables .. xi
Notes .. xiii
Chapter One: Introduction .. 1
Chapter Two: The Perfect Siege of Ath 1697 .. 21
Chapter Three: Efficiency and the Perfect Siege .. 46
Chapter Four: The Transitional War of the Spanish Succession .. 92
Chapter Five: Implementing the Paradigm Siege .. 123
Chapter Six: Contesting the Paradigm Siege .. 173
Chapter Seven: Vigor: An Alternative Paradigm .. 215
Chapter Eight: Succeeding with Vigor .. 253
Chapter Nine: The Vigorous Future .. 309
Appendices:
Appendix A: Allied Campaign Lengths in Flanders .. 325
Appendix B: Siege Dataset Methodology .. 326
Appendix C: Siege Lengths Dataset .. 340
Appendix D: Non-Siege Positional Tactics .. 348
Appendix E: Length Estimates, Selected Sieges .. 361
Appendix F: Siege Artillery .. 367
Bibliography .. 371
Index .. 383
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