Liddell Hart, Basil HenrySir1895-1970creatortextnyuNew YorkPraeger[1967]19672d rev. ed.monographiceng

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430 pages maps 21 cmEarliest ed. published in 1929 under title: The decisive wars of history.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 -- The plans and their issue in the western theatre, 1914 -- The north-eastern theatre -- The south-eastern or Mediterranean theatre -- The strategy of 1918 -- Hitler's strategy -- Hitler's run of victory -- Hitler's decline -- Hitler's fall -- The theory of strategy -- The concentrated essence of strategy and tactics -- National object and military aim -- Grand strategy -- Guerrilla war.[by] B.H. Liddell Hart.Revised edition of: The decisive wars of history. 1929. Geschichte. Military historyStrategyMilitary historyStrategyWeltkrieg (1914-1918)Weltkrieg (1939-1945)D25 .L45 1967355.4/3PR 2604Liddell Hart, Basil Henry,Sir1895-197067023638DLC74060620180705114706.0ocm00382946 eng