Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution

Description:

By examining the preferences of some forty-two officers who served between the War of the Spanish Succession and the French Revolution, Gruber shows that by the middle of the eighteenth century British officers were discriminating in their choices of books on war and, further, that their emerging preference for Continental books affected their understanding of warfare and their conduct of operations in the American Revolution. --from publisher description.

subjects: Great britain, army,  Books and reading,  Military art and science,  United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, british forces,  Officers,  History,  British forces,  Great Britain. Army,  Great Britain