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A brilliant study. . . . It is impossible to do justice to this monumental work in a short review. <br>- Army History

An interesting case study that charts the relationship between intellectual prescription and cultural (in this case military) practice. -- Anglican and Episcopal History

A brilliant study. . . . It is impossible to do justice to this monumental work in a short review.--Army History This is a wonderful book. It provides real, tangible and quantifiable insight that will cause historians to reassess why certain eighteenth-century British field commanders acted as they did.--Journal of NC Association of Historians An interesting case study that charts the relationship between intellectual prescription and cultural (in this case military) practice.--Anglican and Episcopal History This revealing and methodical book significantly advances our understanding of the professional thinking of British military leaders in the eighteenth century. --Times Literary Supplement

An interesting case study that charts the relationship between intellectual prescription and cultural (in this case military) practice.-- Anglican and Episcopal History

This revealing and methodical book significantly advances our understanding of the professional thinking of British military leaders in the eighteenth century. <br>- Times Literary Supplement

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Ira D. Gruber is Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at Rice University. From 1966 to 2009 he taught courses in early American and military history at Rice, the U.S. Military Academy, and the U.S. Army Staff College.

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