A ground-breaking work that has revolutionized the study of civil war, Kalyvas’s book proposes a detailed framework around levels of violence used in numerous fields to examine interactions between armed groups, states, and civilians around the globe.
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Stathis Kalyvas
On Infantry
On Infantry traces the development of the infantry throughout the 20th Century and its impact on the major conflicts of our time, including the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, and the Arab-Israeli Wars.
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John A. English and Bruce I. Gudmundsson
The Defence of Duffer’s Drift
This renowned short book, first published in 1904, is often touted as the origin point of the ‘tactical narrative genre’, where a fictional tactical scenario is used to convey a series of lessons.
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Ernest Dunlop Swinton
Land Warfare: an Introduction
As an introduction, this work is a starting point for an exploration of the nature and character of war.
The inspiration behind the HBO series The Pacific, this World War II memoir by United States Marine Eugene Sledge was first published in 1981 and recounts Sledge’s experiences in the Pacific Theatre.
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E.B. Sledge
Modern Warfare: lessons from Ukraine
Assessing the contrasting strategies of the two sides, Freedman explores how a seemingly superior Russian force has been unable to defeat Ukraine and proffers his diagnosis for the likelihood of ceasefire or peace between Russia and Ukraine.
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Lawrence Freedman
Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle
This French classic examines the moral force and psychological endurance of soldiers in battle, demonstrating that the human elements of war are eternal factors in defeat and victory.
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Ardant du Picq
Panzer Leader
Written by legendary German General Heinz Guderian during his imprisonment by the Allies after the Second World War, this candid autobiography provides the valuable inside story of a strategic visionary whose armoured combat skills brought Germany’s initial World War II victories.
