European Military History |
Author: Huw J. Davies
| Reviewed by Dr. James D. Scudieri, senior research historian, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College
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Senior research historian Dr. James D. Scudieri lends his expertise to review King’s College London academic Huw J. Davies’s most recent book, a “powerful monograph” on the 1750–1850 British Army’s “accidental military enlightenment.” Scudieri provides a chapter-by-chapter overview of the book’s contents and praises Davies for “[setting] the standard for military theoreticians and senior British commanders to integrate theory and practice in the big picture and in the field.” He calls the book a “formidable achievement” and notes that the “emphasis on informal knowledge exchanges is a rare, albeit difficult, element to study.”
Keywords: British Army development, British Army eighteenth-century campaigns, British Army Napoleonic campaigns, army adaptation, army learning, and army innovation