Author: Charles Cornwallis ChesneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Essays in Military Biography
Author: Charles Cornwallis ChesneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Understanding War
Author: Peter ParetPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691216037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
These essays provide an authoritative introduction to Carl von Clausewitz and enlarge the history of war by joining it to the history of ideas and institutions and linking it with intellectual biography.
Clausewitz in His Time
Author: Peter ParetPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782385819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Anything but a detached theorist, Clausewitz was as fully engaged in the intellectual and cultural currents of his time as in its political and military conflicts. Late-eighteenth century thought helped shape the analytic methods he developed for the study of war. The essays in this volume follow his career in a complex military society, together with that of other students of war, both friends and rivals, providing a broad perspective that leads to significant documents so far unknown or ignored. They add to our understanding of Clausewitz’s early ideas and their expansion into a comprehensive theory that continues to challenge our thinking about war today.
African Kaiser
Author: Robert GaudiPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698411528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The incredible true account of World War I in Africa and General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the last undefeated German commander. “Let me say straight out that if all military histories were as thrilling and well written as Robert Gaudi’s African Kaiser, I might give up reading fiction and literary biography… Gaudi writes with the flair of a latter-day Macaulay. He sets his scenes carefully and describes naval and military action like a novelist.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post As World War I ravaged the European continent, a completely different theater of war was being contested in Africa. And from this very different kind of war, there emerged a very different kind of military leader.... At the beginning of the twentieth century, the continent of Africa was a hotbed of international trade, colonialism, and political gamesmanship. So when World War I broke out, the European powers were forced to contend with one another not just in the bloody trenches, but in the treacherous jungle. And it was in that unforgiving land that General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck would make history. With the now-legendary Schutztruppe (Defensive Force), von Lettow-Vorbeck and a small cadre of hardened German officers fought alongside their fanatically devoted native African allies as equals, creating the first truly integrated army of the modern age. African Kaiser is the fascinating story of a forgotten guerrilla campaign in a remote corner of Equatorial Africa in World War I; of a small army of ultraloyal African troops led by a smaller cadre of rugged German officers—of white men and black who fought side by side. But mostly it is the story of von Lettow-Vorbeck—the only undefeated German commmander in the field during World War I and the last to surrender his arms.
Finding-list of Books in the Classes of Biography, History, and Travels Belonging to the Public Library of Indianapolis
Author: Indianapolis Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY VOL. X
Author: Essays in Modern Military Biography
Author: Charles Cornwallis ChesneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337029272
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Essays in Modern Military Biography is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1874. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Essays on Modern Military Biography ... Reprinted Chiefly from The'Edinburgh Review.'.
Author: Charles Cornwallis CHESNEYPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Battle for China
Author: Mark R. PeattiePublisher:
ISBN: 9780804792073
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This project offers the first English-language general history of military operations during the Sino-Japanese war based on Japanese, Chinese, and Western sources.