Marshall Turenne (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Marshall Turenne<br><br>To apologise for a book dealing with the campaigns of a celebrated General but written neither by a soldier nor by that far higher authority upon such subjects a civil military expert would be useless; for it is inconceivable that such an apology could be accepted. To the obvious retort Then why did you write the book P the Author can only reply by saying Why do most of us do many things which we ought not to do P and by expressing a hope that any ludicrous blunders to be found in the following pages may amuse his military readers as much as it has amused him to make them.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.