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Bucholz arguably is the world's leading expert on Delbrück. This book will serve all students of military history."-Holger Herwig, author of Wolfgang Wegener: The Naval Strategy of World War I. The period 1866-1920 saw the rise and ruin of imper[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-8032-6653-7 Article on page: XV, 244p. Class number: 355.009 04 Tags: Military history, Modern ; Delbrück, Hans, 1848-1929 Languages: English Books
From ideas of Clausewitz to contemporary doctrines of containment & cold war, this is a history of modern military thought. It explores conceptions of war, strategy, & military theory, relating them to their cultural & historical contexts. From [...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-19-924762-2 Article on page: XIII, 890 p. Class number: 355.009 Tags: Military art and science--Europe--History ; Military art and science ; War (Philosophy) ; Military history, Modern ; Military art and science--History Languages: English Books
How has war shaped modern society and vice versa? How has it changed over the centuries between the introduction of firearms and the invention of the atom bomb? How is war waged today? This excitingly illustrated book examines the techniques, te[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-19-820427-5 Article on page: XII, 354 Class number: 355.009 Tags: War--History ; War and society ; Military history, Modern ; Military art and science--History Languages: English Books
Peter Paret, Publisher ; Gordon a. Craig, Associate ; Felix Gilbert, Associate | Princeton University Press | 1986The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general hi[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-02764-7 Article on page: VII, 941 p. Descriptors: 6.45 Civil, military and mining engineering > Military engineering > Military strategy
Class number: 355.02 Tags: Military art and science ; Military history, Modern ; Strategy Languages: English Books
The author reveals the main trends in the practice and approach to military history and proposes a new manifesto for the subject to move forward. This must-read study demonstrates the limitations of current approaches, including common generalis[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-415-27534-7 Article on page: XIII, 257 p. Class number: 355.00722 Tags: Military history, Modern Languages: English Books
These essays provide an authoritative introduction to Carl von Clausewitz and enlarge the history of war by joining it to the history of ideas and institutions and linking it with intellectual biography
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-00090-9 Article on page: X, 229 p. Tags: War ; Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831 ; Military art and science--History ; Military history, Modern Languages: English Books
Brands, Hal, Author ; Russell Mead, Walter, Author ; John Bew, Author ; Lawrence Freedman, Author | Princeton University Press | 2023The New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-20438-3 Article on page: 1158 p. Descriptors: Class number: 355.02 Tags: Military History, modern ; Military art and science--Strategy Languages: English Books
Extensively illustrated with 52 detailed campaign and battle maps and diagrams, this book, originally published in 1990, surveys the evolution of warfare in Europe from Napoleon to the end of the twentieth century and in Asia from the Middle Age[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-138-91936-5 Article on page: 314 p. Descriptors: 3.25 History > History > Histoire militaire
3.45 Art > National art > Asian art > Chinese art
6.20 International relations > International conflicts > War
Class number: 355.009 Tags: Military art and science ; Military history, Modern ; War ; Asia Languages: English Books
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-8131-5339-1 Article on page: XIV, 215 p. Class number: 355.020 94 Tags: War ; Great powers ; Balance of power ; World politics ; Military history, Modern Languages: English Books
A monumental work of history, this book shows how technological and strategic revolutions have transformed the battlefield--from the Spanish Armada to the War on Terror--and how mastery of these innovations has shaped the rise and fall of nation[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-59240-222-9 Article on page: XI, 624 Tags: Military history, Modern ; Military art and science--Technological innovations ; Technology--Military applications Languages: English