Strategy category: 1253 books
Summary of Extreme Ownership
by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Summary of Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin | Includes Analysis Preview: Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin is a guide to applying leadership principles of the United States Navy’s Sea, Air, and Land Teams (SEALs) to business....
Samurai Mind
Lessons from Japan's Master Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The Samurai Mind is a collection of five seminal Japanese texts that convey the essence of traditional samurai philosophy and ethics from very different, but complementary points of view.
These texts range from the ferocious to the esoteric—with their common thread being the importance of...
Enemy at the Gates
The Battle for Stalingrad
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
A New York Times bestseller that brings to life one of the bloodiest battles of World War II—and the beginning of the end of the Third Reich.
On August 5, 1942, giant pillars of dust rose over the Russian steppe, marking the advance of the 6th Army, an elite German combat unit dispatched...
by John Keegan
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
The greatest military historian of our time gives a peerless account of America’s most bloody, wrenching, and eternally fascinating war.
In this magesterial history and national bestseller, John Keegan shares his original and perceptive insights into the psychology, ideology, demographics,...
Double Cross
The True Story of the D-Day Spies
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In Double Cross, New York Times bestselling author Ben Macintyre returns with the untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II, and of the extraordinary spies who achieved it.
On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly...
by Napoleon Bonaparte, General Burnod
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Napoleon has been called a giant for the ages, and his influence resonates to this day not only in the field of military endeavor but also in law and governance. His military maxims, captured here in Napoleon's Art of War, are timeless principles applicable to many aspects of life. To contextualize each of the seventy-eight pithy maxims, General Burnod provides brief explanatory expositions.
Oppose Any Foe
The Rise of America's Special Operations Forces
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The epic story of America's most elite warriors: the Special Operations Forces.
Born as small appendages to the conventional armies of World War II, the Special Operations Forces have grown into a behemoth of 70,000 troops, including Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces, Special Operations Marines,...
The New Rules of War
Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
"Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu."
-Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO
Some of the principles of warfare are ancient, others are new, but all described in The New Rules of War will permanently shape war now and in the future. By following...
The March Up
Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Bing West's No True Glory and The Strongest Tribe.
With unprecedented access and previously unreported detail, here is a first hand account of the 22-day march to Baghdad that takes you behind the scenes and to the front line...
No one reporting...
Blueprints for Battle
Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948-1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
While scholarship abounds on the diplomatic and security aspects of the Cold War, very little attention has been paid to military planning at the operational level. In Blueprints for Battle, experts from Russia, the United States, and Europe address this dearth by closely examining the military planning...
The Last Ridge
The Epic Story of America's First Mountain Soldiers and the Assault on Hitler's Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
When World War II broke out in Europe, the American army had no specialized division of mountain soldiers. But in the winter of 1939–40, after a tiny band of Finnish mountain troops brought the invading Soviet army to its knees, an amateur skier named Charles Minot “Minnie” Dole convinced the...
by V. James Bamford
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
It is the most secret agency within the United States Government. For many years, the government denied that it even existed (and, according to a Washington joke, the initials NSA stood for “No Such Agency”). It was established not by law but by a top secret presidential memorandum that has been...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
With the publication of Great Commanders, the Combat Studies Institute continues its mission of publishing exceptional scholarship and adding to the body of historical literature the thoughts and research of distinguished professors. These analyses are both interesting and useful in their discussion...
Stalingrad
The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem.
In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore...