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STRATEGY

B.H. Liddell Hart

 

Frederick Praeger, N. Y. 1954, 420 pgs., index, maps

 
 

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Part I - Strategy from Fifth Century B.C. to Twentieth Century A.D.

 
 

Chapter I - History as Practical Experience

 
 

Chapter II - Greek Wars - Epaminondas, Philip, and Alexander

 
 

Chapter III - Roman Wars - Hannibal, Scipio, and Caesar

 
 

Chapter IV - Byzantine Wars - Belisarius and Narses

 
 

Chapter V - Medieval Wars

 
 

Chapter VI - The Seventeenth Century - Gustavus, Cromwell, Turenne

 
 

Chapter VII - The Eighteenth Century - Marlborough and Frederick

 
 

Chapter VIII - The French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte

 
 

Chapter IX - 1854- 1914

 
 

Chapter X - Conclusions from Twenty-five Centuries

 
 

Part II - Strategy of the First World War

 
 

Chapter XI - The Plans and Their Issue in the Western Theatre, 1914

 
 

Chapter XII - The North-Eastern Theatre

 
 

Chapter XIII - The South-Eastern or Mediterranean Theatre

 
 

Chapter XIV - The Strategy of 1918

 
 

Part III - Strategy of the Second World War

 
 

Chapter XV - Hitler's Strategy

 
 

Chapter XVI - Hitler's Run of Victory

 
 

Chapter XVII - Hitler's Decline

 
 

Chapter XVIII - Hitler's Fall

 
 

Part IV - Fundamentals of Strategy and Grand Strategy

 
 

Chapter XIX - The Theory of Strategy

 
 

Chapter XX - The Concentrated Essence of Strategy - and Tactics

 
 

Chapter XXI - National Object and Military Aim

 
 

Chapter XXII - Grand Strategy

 
 

Appendix I - The Strategy of Indirect Approach in the North African Campaign, 1940-42

 
 

Appendix II - 'For by Wise Counsel Thou Shalt make Thy War'

 

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