Philip St George Cooke: 4 books

Scenes and Adventures in the Army: Or, Romance of Military Life was first published in 1857. Cooke, then a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, described his extensive military service on the American frontier and included a detailed account of the various Native American tribes he encountered there....

“Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.” - Sun Tzu. Three separate eye-witness accounts of the Hugh Glass bear attack story, a Civil War diary from a POW incarcerated in the notorious prison Andersonville, Henry Bradley’s classic study The...

The new hit movie The Revenant is based on the life of American pirate, frontiersman, fur trapper, fur trader, hunter, and explorer Hugh Glass  (c. 1780 – 1833) who once made his way crawling and stumbling 200 miles (320 km) to Fort Kiowa, in South Dakota, after being abandoned without supplies...

Directed by the U.S. War Department in 1859 to prepare a new, revised manual for U.S. cavalry operations, then-Col. Philip St. George Cooke produced this book after extensive research of cavalry tactics used by the advanced nations in Europe, where he had been an observer in the Crimean War (1854-1856)....