Strategy

Liddell Hart, Basil Henry Sir 1895-1970 (Author). Liddell Hart, Basil Henry Sir 1895-1970 Decisive wars of history. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0452010713
ISBN: 9780452010710
Physical Description: print
xxi, 426 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Edition: 2nd rev. ed.
Publisher: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Meridian, [1991], ©1967.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Revised edition of: The decisive wars of history. London : G. Bell & Sons, 1929.

Includes indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. Strategy from fifth century B.C. to twentieth century A.D. History as practical experience -- Greek wars : Epaminondas, Philip, and Alexander -- Roman wars : Hannibal, Scipio, and Caesar -- Byzantine wars : Belisarius and Narses -- Medieval wars -- The seventeenth century : Gustavus, Cromwell, Turenne -- The eighteenth century : Marlborough and Frederick -- The French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte -- 1854-1914 -- Conclusions from twenty-five centuries -- pt. 2. Strategy of the First World War. The plans and their issue in the Western theatre, 1914 -- The North-eastern theatre -- The South-eastern or Mediterranean theatre -- The strategy of 1918 -- pt. 3. Strategy of the Second World War. Hitler's strategy -- Hitler's run of victory -- Hitler's decline -- Hitler's fall -- pt. 4. Fundamentals of strategy and grand strategy. The theory of strategy -- The concentrated essence of strategy and tactics -- National object and military aim -- Grand strategy -- Guerrilla war -- Appendixes. The strategy of indirect approach in the North African campaign, 1940-42 / Major-General Eric Dorman-Smith -- 'For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war' : a strategical analysis of the Arab-Israel War, 1948-49 / General Yigael Yadin.