Ilya Berkovich: 1 book
Motivation in War
The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This book fundamentally revises our notion of why soldiers of the eighteenth century enlisted, served and fought. In contrast to traditional views of the brutal conditions supposedly prevailing in old-regime armies, Ilya Berkovich reveals that soldiers did not regard military discipline as illegitimate...
