Guibert’s General Essay on Tactics (History of Warfare, 137)

Book info: Guibert’s General Essay on Tactics (History of Warfare, 137) (Hardcover, 336 pages) – Brill, 2021. Language: English.

Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2023 (Reference) “’The God of War’ is near to revealing himself, because we have heard his prophet.” So wrote Jean Colin, naming Napoleon the God of War and Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, as his prophet. Guibert was the foremost philosopher of the Military Enlightenment, dedicating his career to systematizing warfare in a single document. The result was his magnum opus, the General Essay on Tactics, which helped to lay the foundation for the success of French armies during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It is presented here in English for the first time since the 1780s, with extensive annotation and contextualization. Editorial Reviews About the Author Jonathan Abel, Ph.D. (2014), Military History Center at the University of North Texas, is Assistant Professor of Military History at the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. He is the author of Guibert: Father of Napoleon’s Grande Armée (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016).