Belloc insists that a battle makes sense only within its campaign, and a campaign only within its political aim. He sets out the war’s objectives, the early fighting, Marlborough’s march to the Danube, the seven weeks of manoeuvre and finally the action at Blenheim in 1704, with attention to what soldiers on half-rations felt.
A short, lucid study from Belloc’s British Battle Books. Download the free EPUB.