Strategy category: 1253 books
SAS Ultimate Guide to Combat
How to Fight and Survive in Modern Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
I've written this book to help you – the soldier – kill the enemy when you get the chance and, most importantly, come back home in one piece. To achieve this aim I've covered combat training from boot camp up to the level required of a Special Forces soldier. And then gone on to add a few tricks...
by A A Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
The product of years of extensive research made possible by exclusive access to Galula's personal papers as well as first-hand accounts from colleagues, family members, and friends, this book traces Galula's life from early childhood until death, describing his upbringing, education, and military...
Why Custer Was Never Warned
The Forgotten Story of the True Genesis of America's Most Iconic Military Disaster, Custer's Last Stand
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
For the first time, this ground-breaking book tells the forgotten story of the true genesis of the June 25, 1876 disaster along the Little Bighorn, "Custer's Last Stand." The failure of the southern column to continue to advance north after the battle of the Rosebud set the stage for the annihilation...
Bluff, Bluster, Lies and Spies
The Lincoln Foreign Policy, 1861–1865
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
An in-depth illustration of shifting Civil War alliances and strategies and of Great Britain’s behind-the-scenes role in America’s War Between the States.
In the early years of the Civil War, Southern arms won spectacular victories on the battlefield. But cooler heads in the Confederacy recognized...
World War II Behind Closed Doors
Stalin, the Nazis, and the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict.
Drawing on material available only since the opening of archives in Eastern Europe...
Grunts
Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
“A superb book—an American equivalent to John Keegan’s The Face of Battle. I sincerely believe that Grunts is destined to be a classic.”—Dave Grossman, Author of On Killing and On Combat
From the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die comes a sweeping narrative...
Bloody Ridge
The Battle that Saved Guadalcanal
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
The Japanese called it the centipede. The northern part of Lunga Ridge, a narrow grass-covered rise that looked like an insect from the air, overlooked a coastal plain. In the center of that plain was Henderson Field, the vital home of the Cactus Air Force and the prize of the Guadalcanal campaign....
by Paul Strathern
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
“Europe is a molehill….”
Everything here is worn out…tiny Europe has not enough to offer.
We must set off for the Orient; that is where all the greatest glory is to be achieved.” —Napoleon
Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt was the first Western attack in modern times on a Middle Eastern...
by Bill Price
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Contents
Introduction Before the War Spying for the Kaiser On His Majesty’s Secret Service Allied Spies
The use of spies during war has a very long history, no doubt going back to the beginnings of warfare itself. In The Art of War, which is believed to have been written...
U.S. Marines in Action
Two Hundred Years of Guts and Glory
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Ten major wars and two hundred minor actions comprise the history of the United States Marine Corps, and parallel the history of America itself. U.S. Marines in Action provides a comprehensive and stirring account of the activities of the military corps that has become synonymous with guts and glory....
Hannibal and Me
What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
A dynamic and exciting way to understand success and failure, through the life of Hannibal, one of history's greatest generals.
The life of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with his army in 218 B.C.E., is the stuff of legend. And the epic choices he and his opponents...
by Edward Watson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
The British Special Air Service (SAS) is no stranger to secrecy and covert operations. From the jungles of Borneo to the deserts in Brunei, they’ve traveled the globe fighting terrorism and other dangerous foes. However, much of their history has gone undocumented and has remained out...
Japan 1945
From Operation Downfall to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
ALSO AVAILABLE TO BUY AS AN E-BOOK. In this 200th Campaign series title Clayton Chun examines the final stages of World War II as the Allies debated how to bring about the surrender of Japan. He details Operation Downfall (the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands).Chun explains why these...
The Sling and the Stone
On War in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
4GW (Fourth Generation Warfare) is the only kind of war America has ever lost. And we have done so three times in Vietnam, Lebanon, and Somalia. This form of warfare has also defeated the French in Vietnam and Algeria, and the USSR in Afghanistan
As the only Goliath left in the world, we should...