Praetorian Press Llc: 10 books

This is an incredible collection of all of Mao's great military works. This book was originally published by the Foreign Language Press in Peking in 1967. This is all of Mao's military writings from 1928 to 1949. Including such important works as "On Protracted War" and "Problems of...

This short (22 page) article by T.E. Lawrence (a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia) was first published in the Army Quarterly in 1920. It is incredibly concise and well written. It contains all of the major analysis and conclusions of Seven Pillars of Wisdom (his book and most famous work) without the narrative...

This short article (less than 3000 words) captures the personal observations and recommendations of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). Based on his experiences as a British Army officer working with the Bedu in the Hejaz during Word War I. These observations are one of the most valuable sets of principles for western soldiers working with indigenous forces.

Field Marshal von der Goltz was an officer in the Prussian and Ottoman armies. He was also a professor at the Prussian military college. The Conduct of War was an extremely influential work which was more widely read than the work of Clausewitz by English language readers at the turn of the century....

This is two books in one. THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S MILITARY INSTRUCTION TO HIS GENERALS and PARTICULAR INSTRUCTION OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA TO THE OFFICERS OF HIS ARMY, AND ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE CAVALRY. These writings made Frederick one of the most influential military thinkers of all times whose influence...

The Strategemata is a Roman work written in the first century. The author, Frontinus, wa a consul and water commissioner. The book is an explanation of the strategems or tricks of war. It is a detailed account of the timeless tools of the general which are as applicable now as they were when Rome ruled the world.

This is the actual report submitted by Col. Joshua Chamberlain describing the pivotal actions of the 20th Maine Volunteers as they conducted the defense of the Union left flank and the bayonet charge proved decisive at the historic battle of Gettysburg. Chamberlain eloqently and concisely sums up the action in this short (7 page) document.

This work was written by Mao Tse-tung during the Japanese occupation of china. It is based on his experiences as a guerrilla fighter and has been an extremely influencial manual to guerrilla fighters and those who oppose them ever since. It is widely read and is important reading for anyone interested in Chinese History, World War Two, Guerrilla or Unconventional Warfare.

The Defense of Duffer’s Drift is one of the most important works ever written on small unit tactics and is required reading for junior officers in military organizations around the world. It was written by Major General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton in 1904 when Swinton was a Captain. It details a fictional...

M. Jean de Bloch was perhaps the world’s greatest amateur philosopher of war. A banker and railway financier, he devoted years to the study of war before the dawn of the 20th Century. He concluded that advances in modern armaments such as smokeless powder, improved rifles, and machine guns had rendered...