Great Captains Unveiled

Author : B. H. Liddell Hart
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 030680686X

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Great Captains Unveiled by B. H. Liddell Hart Pdf

Great Captains Unveiled incisively examines the brilliant military careers and intriguing personalities of six masters of the battlefield: Jenghiz Khan (1167?–1227) and Sabutai (1172?–1245), who led their Mongol cavalry into the heart of medieval Europe and shook the fabric of its civilization; the French Marechal de Saxe (1696-1750), one of the greatest generals of his age, a military prophet of rare foresight, and author of Reveries, a classic on the art of war; Gustavus Adolphus (1594–1632), the Swedish king during the Thirty Years War and the founder of the modern army, who emphasized officer education, national recruitment, and the combination of firepower and mobility; Wallenstein (1583–1634), champion of the Holy Roman Empire and Adolphus's formidable opponent, who proved to be a genius of maneuver and psychological warfare; and James Wolfe (1727–1759), whose flawless execution of one of the most daring amphibious operations in history virtually gave Canada to the British. Liddell Hart's penetrating, decisive studies of these great captains reveal not only their genius and impact, but offer relevant lessons that 20th-century military commanders have yet to fully reap.

Author : Basil Henry Liddell Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Generals
ISBN : 1853670359

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Great Captains Unveiled by Basil Henry Liddell Hart Pdf

Author : Basil Henry Liddell Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:852162433

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Great captains unveiled by Basil Henry Liddell Hart Pdf

Author : Basil H. Liddell Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313095956

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Great captains unveiled by Basil H. Liddell Hart Pdf

Author : Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart
Publisher : Boston : [s.n.]
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Biography
ISBN : IND:32000009522147

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Great Captains Unveiled by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart Pdf

Biographical sketches of famous soldiers.

Author : John J. Mearsheimer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : 0801476313

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Liddell Hart and the Weight of History by John J. Mearsheimer Pdf

This troubling book offers a striking illustration of how history can be used and abused--how a gifted individual can create their own self-serving version of the past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : MINN:30000010468928

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Military Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UCAL:B2861860

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Review of Current Military Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Barry Strauss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439164495

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Masters of Command by Barry Strauss Pdf

Analyzes the leadership and strategies of three forefront military leaders from the ancient world, offers insight into the purposes behind their conflicts, and shows what today's leaders can glean from their successes and failures.

Author : Richard A. Gabriel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806137347

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Genghis Khan's Greatest General by Richard A. Gabriel Pdf

This book tells the story of Subotai the Valiant, a warrior for Genghis Khan and one of the greatest generals in military history. Subotai commanded armies whose size, scale, and scope of operations surpassed those led by any other commander in the ancient world. Under Subotai’s direction, Mongol armies moved faster, over greater distances, and with a greater scope of maneuver than any army had ever done before. When Subotai died at age seventy-three, he had conquered thirty-two nations and won sixty-five pitched battles, according to Muslim historians. Had the great Khan not died, Subotai likely would have destroyed Europe itself.

Author : Richard Wilmer Rowan
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Secret service
ISBN : UOM:39015004229699

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The Story of Secret Service by Richard Wilmer Rowan Pdf

Author : Ali Ahmad Jalali
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700632633

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Afghanistan by Ali Ahmad Jalali Pdf

Afghanistan: A Military History from the Ancient Empires to the Great Game covers the military history of a region encompassing Afghanistan, Central and South Asia, and West Asia, over some 2,500 years. This is the first comprehensive study in any language published on the millennia-long competition for domination and influence in one of the key regions of the Eurasian continent. Jalali’s work covers some of the most important events and figures in world military history, including the armies commanded by Cyrus the Great, Alexander the Great, the Muslim conquerors, Chinggis Khan, Tamerlane, and Babur. Afghanistan was the site of their campaigns and the numerous military conquests that facilitated exchange of military culture and technology that influenced military developments far beyond the region. An enduring theme throughout Afghanistan is the strong influence of the geography and the often extreme nature of the local terrain. Invaders mostly failed because the locals outmaneuvered them in an unforgiving environment. Important segments include Alexander the Great, remembered to this day as a great victor, though not a grand builder; the rise of Islam in the early seventh century in the Arabian Peninsula and the monumental and enduring shift in the social and political map of the world brought by its conquering armies; the medieval Islamic era, when the constant rise and fall of ruling dynasties and the prevalence of an unstable security environment reinforced localism in political, social, and military life; the centuries-long impact of the destruction caused by Chinggis Khan’s thirteenth century; early eighteenth century, when the Afghans achieved a remarkable military victory with extremely limited means leading to the downfall of the Persian Safavid dynasty; and the Battle of Panipat (1761), where Afghan Emperor Ahmad Shah Abdali decisively routed the Hindu confederacy under Maratha leadership, widely considered as one of the decisive battles of the world. It was in this period when the Afghans founded their modern state and a vast empire under Ahmad Shah Durrani, which shaped the environment for the arrival of the European powers and the Great Game.

Author : Richard A. Gabriel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313038341

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Subotai the Valiant by Richard A. Gabriel Pdf

This book tells the story of Subotai the Valiant, one of the greatest generals in military history, surely the equal of Hannibal and Scipio in tactical brilliance and ranking right along with both Alexander and Caesar as a strategist. Subotai commanded armies whose size, scale, and scope of operations surpassed all of the commanders of the ancient world. Under his direction and command, Mongol armies moved faster, over greater distances, and with a greater scope of maneuver than any army had ever done before. His legacy lives to the present day, for much of the theory and practice of modern military operations was first used by Subotai. The modern emphasis on speed, maneuver, surprise, envelopment, the rear battle, the deep battle, concentration of firepower, and the battle of annihilation all emerged as tactical skills first practiced by this great Mongol general. Subotai died at age 73, by which time he had conquered 32 nations and won 65 pitched battles, as the Muslim historians tell us. For 60 of those years, Subotai lived as Mongol soldier, first as a lowly private who kept the tent door of Genghis himself, rising to be the most brilliant and trusted of Genghis Khan's generals. When Genghis died, Subotai continued to be the moving force of the Mongol army under his successors. It was Subotai who planned and participated in the Mongol victories against Korea, China, Persia, and Russia. It was Subotai's conquest of Hungary that destroyed every major army between the Mongols and the threshold of Europe. Had the great Khan not died, it is likely that Subotai would have destroyed Europe itself.

Author : M. Evan Brooks
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597974608

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Military History's Most Wanted by M. Evan Brooks Pdf

In 1944 U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Leslie J. McNair was accidentally killed by USAAF bombers that dropped their bombs short of the target, thus becoming the highest-ranking American casualty of World War II. Union Gen. Daniel Sickels was the first person to be successfully acquitted of murder by pleading temporary insanity after he shot and killed the son of "Star-Spangled Banner" composer Francis Scott Key in cold blood. Ten years before Custer's infamous last stand, U.S. cavalry Capt. William J. Fetterman disobeyed orders and led his eighty-man detachment in pursuit of a band of Sioux Indians. Neith.

Author : David H. Manhoff
Publisher : Beechwood Healthbooks, Inc.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0916363147

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Mosby's Outdoor Emergency Medical Guide by David H. Manhoff Pdf

This lifesaving guide shows and tells the untrained person what to do in an outdoor emergency until professional help arrives. Its easy-to-understand instructions and illustrations include care for heart attacks, strokes, open wounds, falls, choking, broken bones, animal and snake bites, insect stings, and dehydration.