John Lynn here attempts to attack a subject long ignored by the military historians of today. The book covers close to fifty years of warfare and does so increadably well. Each war is covered in detail as well as the manner in which they were fought. The entire first part of the book goes over the manner warfare was fought in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Lynn often writes with a dramatic style, keeping me on edge dealing with the time period after Malplaquet even though I knew what was going to happen. He describes Louis as trying to make France greater, but not as a Napoleon figure of continental conquest, but rather of limited conquest. The wars, especially the latter two, are described as "war of process" without decisive outcomes and limited goals. This is not to say that the wars themselves are limited.
Lynn describes the wars as similar to the First World War. France is a great power and over extends itself against a massive European coalition. The armies do not have much movement despite decisive victories by both parties and involve horrific losses. Lynn challenges the idea that the wars were the beginning of the "civilized" warfare age by stating that the wars were just as destructive as anything else European history has to offer. Rather he claims that because of the destruction of these wars the idea of limited war came about. He says that not until the French Revolution would "total" war come about again or ironically the next time war was fought on French soil. (At least the commonly accepted stereotype of limited war)
In terms of strategy the book is execellent. He describes the methods of Vauban and the great marshals. Overall this is the best book you can find out there on this subject. The only negative is that it were not longer and more in depth. If Lynn wanted to he could make books twice this large for every war described in this one book. My hope is that he does so.
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