Strategy category: 1253 books
The Shogun's Scroll
Wield Power and Control Your Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The Shogun's Scroll offers a look at the samurai strategies and ethics of medieval Japan distilled into language modern readers can relate to and follow.
In the tradition of The Art of War and The Book of Five Rings, this book offers timeless advice on success in war and life. Written in the...
So Sad to Fall in Battle
An Account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi's Letters from Iwo Jima
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
The Battle of Iwo Jima has been memorialized innumerable times as the subject of countless books and motion pictures, most recently Clint Eastwood’s films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, and no wartime photo is more famous than Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning image of Marines...
by United States Marine Corps.
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
U.S. Marine Combat Conditioning is a complete reproduction of the combat conditioning program that was completed by all World War II-era Officer Candidates while at OCS in Quantico, Virginia. Combat Conditioning is defined as the physical and mental conditioning of individual Marines for hand-to-hand...
by United States Air Force
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
A fascinating piece of Air Force history and the perfect survivalist handbook for getting through the worst outdoor conditions or situations.
Originally written to help pilots who find themselves in hostile environments, the U.S. Air Force Survival Handbook is a comprehensive manual of outdoor...
100 Great Military Leaders
History's Greatest Masters of Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
Military history as told through the lives and deeds of warfare's most famous commanders, from ancient Greece through the World Wars, Vietnam, and the end of the twentieth century. Beginning with Leonides of Sparta, who died at Thermopylae in 480 b.c.e., and ending with General Giap, a Vietnamese leader;...
Wellington's Rifles
The British Light Infantry and Rifle Regiments, 1758?1815
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Until now there has not been a serious study of the rifle-armed regiments of the British Army that earned such renown in the Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns. Compiled by a former rifleman, Ray Cusick, who has written extensively on the subject, Wellington’s Rifles examines the new rifle regiments,...
Lords of Darkness
A History of the 45Th Avn Bn (Sp Ops) and Okarng Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Prior to 1979, you probably hadnt heard of counterterrorism or Special Operations. Even so, special warriors have been around since Moses sent Joshua to spy out the land of Canaan. In 1986, Colonel Billy R. Wood served as the operations officer of the newly organized 45th Aviation Battalion (Special...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
A brief preface states the purpose. Chapter 1 overviews armchair generals, ranks U.S military units, and restates that military units must support both civilian and military goals as outlined in previous works. Chapter 2 deals with the need to sleep and war, in favor of sleep to the extent possible....
Martial Virtues
Lessons in Wisdom, Courage, and Compassion from the World's Greatest Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
This martial arts books explores the role of martial philosophy and history in personal character development.
Martial Virtues explores the role of martial arts in character development. It focuses on the spiritual aspects of martial arts training, attempting to answer the question of what...
Liberty's Surest Guardian
American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Americans are a nation-building people, and in Liberty’s Surest Guardian, Jeremi Suri—Nobel Fellow and leading light in the next generation of policy makers—looks to America’s history to see both what it has to offer failed states around the world and what it should avoid. Far from being cold...
by Major-General J. F. C. Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The seminal treatise on Generalship, by Major-General Fuller, reputed to have been the most formative book in General Patton’s military training which he kept with him at all times.
“IN the summer of 1921 I was lunching at the Restaurant la Rue with the Deputy Chief of the French General...
by Spenser Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
On the afternoon of Monday, the 2nd of July, 1866, King William of Prussia with his retinue drove into the little town of Gitschin, in the hilly region of Northern Bohemia, on the southern side of the Giant Mountains. His upright bearing scarcely showed the burden of his sixty-nine years, nor did...
by Dr Stephen Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
From his seat in Xanadu, the great Mongol Emperor of China, Kubla Khan, had long plotted an invasion of Japan. However, it was only with the acquisition of Korea, that the Khan gained the maritime resources necessary for such a major amphibious operation. Written by expert Stephen Turnbull, this book...
Petersburg 1864–65
The longest siege
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In 1864 General Ulysses S. Grant decided to strangle the life out of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia by surrounding the city of Petersburg and cutting off General Robert E. Lee's supply lines. The ensuing siege would carry on for nearly ten months, involve 160,000 soldiers, and see a number...