 | The Campaigns of Napoleon by David G. Chandler
Buy new: $53.55 / Used from: $24.84 The truly great book on Napoleon's strategy, operational art and genius.
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 | Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set) by Shelby Foote
Buy new: $118.80 / Used from: $44.95 How can anyone possibly due this book justice by feeble comments.
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 | Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War by Robert A. Doughty
Buy new: $32.60 / Used from: $19.84 A great work of scholarship. The best work I have ever read about the strategy of WWI. French strategy and operations has long been overlooked in WWI, despite France bearing most of the cost in blood on the western front.
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 | Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany 1944-1945 by Russell F. Weigley
Buy new: $23.52 / Used from: $6.00 The best volume on the American campaign in the ETO against the 3rd Reich.
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 | Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Buy used from: $13.73 A great book at how Lincoln dealt with his cabinet. All of themthought at the outside that they were more qualified to be commander-in-chief than him. Also a good book for anyone who has to supervise others on how to get the best out of difficult people.
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 | The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo by Russell F. Weigley
Buy new: $22.46 / Used from: $14.99 Covers a period in history that is neglected. Very interesting read about the developments in tactics and the operational art over a period of 150 years.
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 | Nelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797 (John MacRae Books) by John Sugden
Buy used from: $0.50 Masterful book on the life and career of Admiral Nelson. Excellant work on the early and mid career of Nelson. Can't wait for the 2nd volume.
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 | The Punic Wars by Adrian Goldsworthy
Buy used from: $9.98 Tells how Rome beat Hanibal and Carthage because Rome just refused to give up, also Scipio was one of the greatest generals in antiquity.
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 | Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
Buy new: $21.00 / Used from: $9.50 A biography of one of histories greatest generals. A fascinating read of the military and politcal skills found in one man. Most leaders don't even have one of these skills, let alone both.
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 | Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $6.72 The beginnings of US maritme power. Covers the building and careers of our 1st six majorwarships, especially the Constitution.
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 | The David Hackett Fischer Set: Consisting of Liberty and Freedom and Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
Buy used from: $85.10 Covers the turning point in our revolution. Washington's magnificent and desperate campaign in New Jersey. Anyone who thinks that Washington was a mediocre general will be astonished by this book.
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 | A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books Classics) by Alistair Horne
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.58 Anybody who wishes to understand the war in Iraq should read this book. Rumsfeld and Bush should have studied this book before they committed us to a pacification campaign in Iraq.
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 | To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World by Arthur Herman
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $5.52 Shows how Briish sea power developed and created an empire.
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 | To Lose a Battle: France 1940 by Sir Alistair Horne
Buy new: $13.50 / Used from: $3.00 Shows how France contributed to its own defeat in 1940. Tells how the French Republic was coming apart at the seems due to poliitcal infighting. Also tells hoe the French army was set in its ways from WWI while the Germans devised new tactics to overcome fortifications.
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| A Noise of War: Caesar, Pompey, Octavian & the Struggle for Rome by A. J. Langguth
A history of the Roman civil war between Pompei and Caesar. Very accesible to the lay reader and fast moving.
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 | Refighting the Last War: Command and Crisis in Korea 1950-1953 by D. Clayton James
Buy used from: $0.01 Tells about the several turning points in the Korean War.
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 | The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
Buy used from: $2.98 This is about the great was that devasted Greece between Sparta and Athens.
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 | Richard and John: Kings at War by Frank McLynn
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $3.77 Shows how King Richard was one of the great commanders in medieval history, while his brother John was one of the worst. John ended up losing the English empire in Francebecause of his lack of character and ability.
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 | Petain: How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History by Charles Williams
Buy used from: $5.99 A must read if you want to understand Petain's role in French victory and defeat.
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| Kitchener's Sword-arm: The Life And Campaigns Of General Sir Archibald Hunter by Archie Hunter
Buy used from: $1.98 This is mostly concerned with the Boar War and Hunter's place in it.
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