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

Content descriptions

General Note:

"The classic book on military strategy"--Cover.

Includes indexes.

Rev. ed. of: The decisive wars of history. London : G. Bell & Sons, 1929.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 -- 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 --

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Military history

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