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The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe
or, How the Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis sent merchant marine James D. Bulloch to Europe to clandestinely acquire arms and ships for the Confederate navy. His first stop was Britain, a country hedging its bets on who would win the War Between the States and willing to secretly provide the...
Stopped at Stalingrad
The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
By the time Hitler declared war on the Soviet Union in 1941, he knew that his military machine was running out of fuel. In response, he launched Operation Blau, a campaign designed to protect Nazi oilfields in Rumania while securing new ones in the Caucasus. All that stood in the way was Stalingrad.
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Masters of War
Classical Strategic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2005
This is the first comprehensive study based on a detailed textual analysis of the classical works on war by Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Mao Tse-tung, and to a lesser extent, Jomini and Machiavelli. Brushing stereotypes aside, the author takes a fresh look at what these strategic thinkers actually said—not...
by Capt (Ret) Willy F.Sumakul, Capt (Ret) Gatot Soedarto
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Buku ini menjelaskan secara gamblang potensi konflik di Laut China Selatan disebabkan adanya 7 negara di kawasan itu yang mengklaim sebagian atau seluruh kawasan sebagai teritorial negaranya, dan menjadikan sebagai kepentingan nasionalnya. Dari adanya potensi konflik di kawasan Laut China Selatan...
The German 1918 Offensives
A Case Study in The Operational Level of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This is the first study of the Ludendorff Offensives of 1918 based extensively on key German records presumed to be lost forever after Potsdam was bombed in 1944.
In 1997, David T. Zabecki discovered translated copies of these files in a collection of old instructional material at the U.S....
by Linda Robinson, Patrick B. Johnston, Gillian S. Oak
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
This report examines the 14-year experience of U.S. special operations forces in the Philippines from 2001 through 2014 and the activities and effects of special operations capabilities employed to address terrorist threats in Operation Enduring Freedom—Philippines through training and equipping...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Here for the first time in one place is everything you need to know about modern military combat. Drawn from dozens of the U.S. Army’s well-written field manuals on every conceivable aspect of conducting combat operations, this huge compendium contains everything for any combatant anywhere—armed...
Masters of the Battlefield: Great Commanders From the Classical Age to the Napoleonic Era
Great Commanders From the Classical Age to the Napoleonic Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
"The personality of a general is indispensable," Napoleon once said. "He is the head, he is the all, of an army." In Masters of the Battlefield, Paul K. Davis offers vivid portraits of fifteen legendary military leaders whose brilliance on and off the battlefield embody this maxim. Hailing from the...
by Harold A. Skaarup
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2003
It has been said that the taking of a fortress depends primarily on the making of a good plan to take it, and the proper implementation and application of the resources to make the plan work. Long before a fortress has been besieged and conquered, it has to have been outthought before it can be outfought....
Germany’s Western Front: 1915
Translations from the German Official History of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
This multi-volume series in seven parts is the first English-language translation of Der Weltkrieg, the German official history of the First World War. Originally produced between 1925 and 1944 using classified archival records that were destroyed in the aftermath of the Second World War, Der Weltkrieg...
Operation Dragoon 1944
France’s other D-Day
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Operation Dragoon, the Allied landings in southern France on August 15, 1944, was one of the most controversial operations of 1944, leading to a deep divide between United States and British planners. The US objective was to threaten the rear of the German armies occupying France by a landing on the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This book examines multiple insurgent areas of operation and the dynamic and varied nature of multiple insurgent operational centers of gravity, recognizing and accounting for the notion that insurgency can form a complex, shifting mosaic. More specifically, many insurgencies conduct different types...
Inside Israel's Northern Command
The Yom Kippur War on the Syrian Border
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
On October 6, 1973, Israel's Northern Command was surprised by the thunder of cannon fire and the sight of dense, black smoke. A Syrian force of 1,400 tanks supported by artillery and air power had attacked from the north while the Egyptian military invaded the Sinai Peninsula in the south. Syria...
Siegfried Line, The
The German Defense of the West Wall, September-December 1944
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
The battles for the Germans' last line of defense in World War II, including Arnhem, Aachen, the Huertgen Forest, and Metz
How German commanders made decisions under fire
Built as a series of forts, bunkers, and tank traps, the West Wall--known as the Siegfried Line to the Allies--stretched...