Great Captains Unveiled

Liddell, Hart Basil H.

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THE REAL WAR is a history of WW I unlike anything we have ever read. Liddell Hart sets the stage like a masterful dramatist. Bismarck, Disraeli, Czar Nicholas and Kaiser Wilhelm emerge from the wings and drive their countries on a collision course. The action ranges wherever Germany and the Allies lock in combat: Poland, Mesopotamia, Gallipoli, Caporetto, Bagdad, the North Sea and the Mediterranean. The origins of the war, the backroom agonies of the diplomats trying to avert it, the feelings of the generals who conduct it fill the pages of this authoritative study. "Liddell Hart has synthesized the immensity of the war into a single volume, presenting it tactically, critically, historically--a valuable work." (Nation)

The Real War

The German Generals Talk

Like many of his brother officers, Liddell Hart served in both world wars. Many German generals were junior officers on the Western front in the first encounter, master planners in the second.  In 1945 Liddell Hart had an unparalleled opportunity to meet with his opposite numbers to obtain their spontaneous impressions of the war.  "A 'must' for the historian, it is also a stimulating excursion for the casual rambler through the highways and byways of history." (The New York Times)

History

Military

William Tecumseh Sherman possessed not only the most unusual middle name, but also the most orginal mind among Civil War generals. His great campaign of destruction through the South was 100 years ahead of its time and foreshadowed both the totality and mobility of WW II. His mind was imaginative and uncompromising, and no matter our profession, we can study its working with profit.  "Liddell Hart was a great interpretive historian. He saw into the heart of things. He wrote with clarity and intelligence about men and events. His analyses, concerned as they are chiefly with conflict, cut through the superfluous and deal with bedrock issues of character and intelligence, qualities that determine how each of us fares in life." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American

This is the classic book on war as we know it. During his long life, Basil H. Liddell Hart was considered one of the world's foremost military thinkers--a man generally regarded as the "Clausewitz of the 20th century." Liddell Hart stressed movement, flexibilty, surprise. He saw that in most military campaigns dislocation of the enemy's psychological and physical balance is prelude to victory. This dislocation results from a strategic indirect approach. Reflect for a moment on the results of direct confrontation (trench war in WW I) versus indirect dislocation (Blitzkreig in WW II). Liddell Hart is also tonic for business and political planning: just change the vocabulary and his concepts fit. "The most important book by one of the outstanding military authorities of our time." (Library Journal)

Strategy

<p>2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Originally published with the title: A Greater than Napoleon, Scipio Africanus. Full Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Scipio Africanus (236-183 B.C.) was one of the most exciting and dynamic military leaders of the classical world. He never lost a battle whilst commanding Roman troops. Yet it is his adversary, Hannibal, who has lived on in the public memory, due mostly to his daring march through the Alps with his elephants. At the Battle of the Ticinus, Hannibal's initial encounter with Roman arms, young Scipio first tasted warfare, rescuing his dangerously wounded, encircled father, who was also the Roman commander. By nineteen Scipio was the equivalent of a staff colonel and in 210 B.C. he was placed in supreme command. In three years, he destroyed Carthaginian power in Spain and, after being made consul, took his forces to Africa, where he conquered Carthage's great ally, Syphax. Two years later he clashed with Hannibal himself, annihilating his army in the decisive Battle of Zama. For this triumph and his other exploits in the Punic Wars, Scipio was awarded the title Africanus. In his fascinating portrait of this extraordinary commander, B. H. Liddell Hart writes, "The age of generalship does not age, and it is because Scipio's battles are richer in stratagems and ruses -- many still feasible today -- than those of any other commander in history that they are an unfailing object lesson." Not only military enthusiasts and historians but all those interested in outstanding men will find this magnificent study absorbing and gripping.<br />
Chapters: Introduction -- Half light -- Dawn -- The storm of Cartagena -- The Battle of Bæcula -- The Battle of Ilipa -- The subjugation of Spain -- The true objective -- A political hitch -- Africa -- A violated peace -- Zama -- After Zama -- Siesta -- The last lap -- Dusk -- Rome's zenith.</p>

Scipio Africanus: Greater than Napoleon

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