Strategy the Indirect Approach by Liddell Hart B H (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. ISBN:9788182746077,420pp.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Included. maps (illustrator). Contents Preface I Strategy from fifth century BC to twentieth century AD 1 History as practical experience 2 Greek wars--Epaminondas Philip and Alexander 3 Roman wars--Hannibal Scipio and Caesar 4 Byzantine wars--Belisarius and Narses 5 Medieval wars 6 The seventeenth century--Gustavus Cromwell Turenne 7 The eighteenth century--Marlborough and Frederick 8 The French revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte 9 1854-1914 10 Conclusions from twenty-five centuries II Strategy of the first world war 11 The plans and their issue in the western theatre 1914 12 The north-eastern theatre 13 The south-eastern or Mediterranean theatre 14 The strategy of 1918 III Strategy of the second world war 15 Hitlers strategy 16 Hitlers run of victory 17 Hitlers decline 18 Hitlers fall IV Fundamentals of strategy and grand strategy 19 The theory of strategy 20 The concentrated essence of strategy--and tactics 21 National object and military aim 22 Grand strategy Appendices IndexThis classic book on strategy by one of the foremost military thinkers of the twentieth century Strategy The Indirect Approach draws on all of military history from the Greek-Persian war of the fifth century BC to the development of guerrilla warfare in the nuclear age Liddell Hart provides a perceptive and fascinating examination of wars and their architects He shows how Hitler almost won and ultimately lost World War II and defines practical principles Adjust your ends to your means Take a line of operation which offer alternate objectives that are as fundamental in worlds of politics and business as they are in warfareThis extraordinary work should be essential reading for anyone fascinated by military history and strategy jacket 420 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [The Classic Book on Military Strategy] First U.K. Edition. 1941 printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Edge wear. Biblio notes on front end page, else unmarked. xvii, 316 pages : maps ; 22 cm. Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart was a highly influential military strategist who used his experience as a soldier in the First World War to evolve new ideas on warfare. Liddell Hart served as a captain in the First World War during which he was gassed on the Somme in 1916, and suffered two mild heart attacks in 1921 and 1922 (which were probably the long-term effects of his gassing), an experience which colored his thinking. He introduced new methods of instruction and drill, contributed to the Infantry Training Manual, and left the army in 1927. He was an influential commentator on war, notably in Strategy: The Indirect Approach (1929). Thirty books followed. He was military correspondent for the Daily Telegraph (1925-35) and The Times (1935-9). In 1939, however, his calls for a compromise peace with Hitler clashed with public opinion and he was accused of having Nazi sympathies, despite his consistently anti-Fascist stance. An early campaigner for nuclear disarmament, his views influenced President Kennedy before the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. From the library of Captain Robert McCabe III, USN. McCabe was a professor at the Naval War College.