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Earliest edition published in 1929 under title: The decisive wars of history.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, Sir, 1895-1970 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Frederick A. Praeger, [1967]
Edition:Second revised edition.
Series:Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, Sir, 1895-1970.
Subjects:
Military history.
Strategy.
Histoire militaire.
Stratégie.
Military history
Strategy
Weltkrieg > 1914-1918
Weltkrieg > 1939-1945
Geschichte.
Table of Contents:
  • History as practical experience
  • Greek wars- Epaminondas, Philip, and Alexander
  • Roman Wars
  • Hannibal, Scipio, and Caesar
  • Byzantine wars: Belisarius and Narses
  • Medieval wars
  • The seventeenth century: Gustavus, Cromwell, Turenne
  • The eighteenth century: Marlborough and Frederick
  • The French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte
  • 1854-1914
  • Conclusions from twenty-five centuries
  • The plans and their issue in the western theatre, 1914
  • The north-eastern theatre
  • The south-eastern or Mediterranean theatre
  • The strategy of 1918
  • Hitler's strategy
  • Hitler's run of victory
  • Hitler's decline
  • Hitler's fall
  • The theory of strategy
  • The concentrated essence of strategy and tactics
  • National object and military aim
  • Grand strategy
  • Guerrilla war.