… Syria and Algeria, du Picq was killed leading his men against … Prussians in 1870. This French classic examines the moral force … that the human elements of war are eternal factors in defeat …
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Ardant du Picq
Panzer Leader
… the Allies after the Second World War, this candid autobiography … brought Germany’s initial World War II victories. In this classic account, Guderian covers in …
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Heinz Guderian
Infantry Attacks
… In this renowned classic study of the art of war first published in 1937, ‘The … and greatest battles in World War I. Encompassing his …
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Erwin Rommel
Modern warfare: A French view of Counterinsurgency
… A classic counterinsurgency text, Modern warfare provides an accessible, … counterinsurgency operations. He was among the first authors to …
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Roger Trinquier
The Oboe Landings, 1945
… Operation Oboe was a series of three amphibious … and Oboe 2 on Balikpapan. Oboe was the culmination of all the … case study of Australia’s last major amphibious operation, …
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Dayton McCarthy
Stalingrad
… A classic, hailed by historians … the definitive account of World War II’s most harrowing battle. …
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Antony Beevor
The Guns of August
… This Pulitzer prize-winning classic deals with the opening weeks of the Great War on the Western and Eastern … conflict, including the ‘short war’ delusion, the belief that …
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Barbara Tuchman
Kevlar Legions: The Transformation of the US Army 1989–2005
… a former brigadier general whose last assignment was as Chief of Military History. … to change, the book examines the ways in which successive chiefs of …
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John Sloan Brown
Fear Drive My Feet
… This classic Australian memoir of the Second World War has lost none of its power and … of 1942 and 1943 patrolling forward of friendly lines in Japanese …
