Excerpt from Fontenoy: And Great Britain's Share in the War of the Austrian Succession, 1741-48 IN presenting this work to the public, I need not lay stress on the tactical or strategic problems which it unfolds. They will be best appreciated by military students, whose criticism may, per haps, be disarmed by the frank admissions in the Preface. The political issues raised are of wider importance. They are not stated explicitly in the text, - for history is one thing and speculation quite another, - but he who runs may ...
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Excerpt from Fontenoy: And Great Britain's Share in the War of the Austrian Succession, 1741-48 IN presenting this work to the public, I need not lay stress on the tactical or strategic problems which it unfolds. They will be best appreciated by military students, whose criticism may, per haps, be disarmed by the frank admissions in the Preface. The political issues raised are of wider importance. They are not stated explicitly in the text, - for history is one thing and speculation quite another, - but he who runs may read the morals drawn in these pages. TO exhume a dead and buried past is sheer waste of time if it be not forced to yield lessons of value to the present generation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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