Lives of the Warriors of the Thirty Years War, Vol. 1: Warriors of the 17th Century (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It has long been my settled persuasion, that at a period when active duty cannot be experienced by the war-professions, the injunction of our great Duke to young officers, "that they should go and see service in the field," is best obeyed by a study of the past; and that the histories of wars and warriors are the best and only available substitute for active military service in the field. But unhappily wars and warriors are as old as seas and mountains, and it becomes somewhat difficult to determine within what limits of the world's history we arc to confine our study of strategy and tactics. In the earlier stages of strife, before science of any kind could have been engrafted upon it, bodily prowess must have been of course the one thing needful; but we see from our every-day's experience of savage war, how early barbarian cunning and subtlety leads up to military skill, so that war in its fundamental principles is of very remote antiquity.

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