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The Vietnam War: An Encyclopedia of Quotations
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This is the story of the Vietnam War told through quotations in chronological sequence. Starting with the beginnings of Vietnamese history, it traces the events preceding the French war, continues through the American war, and ends with its aftermath. All sides of the controversy are represented. Here are the voices of warriors, presidents, generals, government leaders, civilians, aid workers, pilots, infantrymen, nurses, historians, war correspondents, sociologists, POWs, peasants, draft dodgers, guerillas, and war resisters. They speak from government capitals, hooches, hospital wards, jungle trails, landing zones, aircraft carriers, draft boards, Buddhist temples, and prison cells. They talk of firefights, ambushes in the jungle, bombing raids, coups, assassinations, suicides, demonstrations, atrocities, and teach-ins. Here are Ho Chi Minh, Lyndon Johnson, Giap, Westmoreland, Kennedy, De Gaulle, Eisenhower, Nixon, McNamara, Kissinger, and many people you have never heard of. Meet Hanoi Hannah, who broadcast propaganda from the North Vietnamese capital; John McCain tells you what it was like to be shot down over enemy territory and taken prisoner; John Kerry tells a U.S. Senate committee why he opposes the Vietnam War. You will learn about My Lai, Agent Orange, Kent State, the Pentagon Papers, and the plan to free American POWs that went awry. Features include a chronology, biographical sketches, Medal of Honor winners, bibliography, nineteen photos, and an index.
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Insightful Quotations Pertinent To Life.......2001-06-24
As a former US Marine, and current minister of the gospel, I have found this book to have pertinent and useful quotes - not just for military men and women. Topics such as initiative, leadership, success, planning / preparation, discipline, etc. are not just important on the battlefield, but for life in general. I have been able to successfully utilize some of these quotes in teachings and counseling sessions that I have done. For example, concerning those of us whose job it is to raise up future leaders, General Bruce C Clarke said "You must be able to underwrite the honest mistakes of your subordinates if you wish to develop their initiative and experience." Also, General Moshe Dayan said "It is better to struggle with a stallion when the problem is how to hold it back, than to urge on a bull that refuses to budge." Overall, I believe it is a great and very interesting book - for those in or out of the military.
Warrior's Words.......2000-04-11
Warrior's Words is a necessity to those who work in the military. There were several tid bits of information and reminders of our noble profession of arms. Even those words from old soldiers of the past still hold knowledge that is usable today. Mr. Tsouras brought together a great blend of generals and time periods. I would recommend this book to anyone looking at the military as a career....
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A definitive book of quotations with comments not only from generals (such as General Sherman's "War is hell,") and presidents (Lincoln's description of army recruitment/retention as "trying to shovel fleas. You take up a shovelful, but before you can dump them anywhere, they are gone,") but also from ordinary soldiers (Sam R. Watkins' "A private soldier is but an automator, a machine that works by the command of a good, bad, or indifferent engineer, and is presumed to know nothing of all these great events,") and quotes from businessmen, wives and daughters (such as Southerner Sarah Morgan's comment about Northern newspapers "There must be many humane, reasonable men in the North, can they not teach their Editors decency in this their hour of triumph") nurses, African Americans (both enslaved and free, such as John S. Rock, a lawyer in Boston), foreign observers (such as William Howard Russell), and many others, this work will also include more contextual information than other books of Civil War quotations. Organized by topic and collecting quotations from people from different classes and with different perspectives on the conflict, The Oxford Book of Civil War Quotations should engage the casual reader as well as be an essential volume for the library of Civil War buffs. Thirty-five halftones will illustrate selected topics and individuals.
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Oxford Dict. of Civil War Quotations is Descriptive, Insightful.......2007-04-23
I like to read the books we are selling and am so glad I picked this one up. It is organized well, has a huge range of sources and draws from every imaginable socio-economic level for the quotes. It's not just fascinating reading, but also a great resource for those needing a really special quote for speeches or articles. My teens really enjoyed seeing the really different speech patterns from the Civil War time period.
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This is an epic new volume bringing 4,000 years of military history to life through the words of more than 800 soldiers, commanders, military theorists and commentators on war. Diverse personalities - including Napoleon, Machiavelli, Ataturk, 'Che' Guevara, Rommel, Julius Caesar, Wellington, Eisenhower, Crazy House, T.E. Lawrence and many more - immortalize every facet of the experience of war from the sack of Summerian Ur in 2000 BC to the present day. The quotes, fully sourced and dated, are broken down into more than 480 categories and subjects covering courage, danger, failure, leadership, luck, military intelligence, tactics, training, guerrilla warfare and victory.
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The maxims of great but dead generals..........2004-06-17
My Rating would be 3 1/2 stars.
Historian Barbara Tuchman commented tartly that "Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general." Lt.-Col. Peter G. Tsouras (Ret.), a military historian and analyst, has compiled a huge wealth of comfort for the aspiring military mind. In this new paperback edition of a reference book first published in 2000 (which in turn was an update of the author's earlier Warrior Words) Tsouras offers around 6,000 quotations from more than 800 warriors and military thinkers arranged under nearly 500 subject headings. Tsouras has revised, expanded and reorganized the previous work to produce this new edition.
Tsouras includes quotes from the dawn of history, the sack of Ur, in 2000 B.C.E. to the current Gulf War. Quotes range from the well-known to those selected by the editor himself for the utility. Tsouras states that that his intention was that the subject headings employed should be those which reflect the "essence of the profession of arms, the realm of ideas rather than objects." We get therefore sections on "Attack," "Operational Art," "Centre of Gravity" and "Unity of Command." Also included are topics concerning the human factors in war, "Morale," "Judgement," and "Comradeship and The Band of Brothers." Tsouras has chosen, where possible, to include the context of the quotes he has selected, rather than just the shorter pithier version.
Authors of quotes run the gamut from literary writers and historians like Homer, Plutarch and Ernie Pyle, "Great Captains" like Alexander, Caesar and Frederick the Great, military theorists such as Sun Tzu, Clausewitz and Alfred Thayer Mahan, or "fighting men" like Marshal Ney, Joshua Chamberlain and Marshal Zhukov. For the Napoleonic era, the garrulous Napoleon gets almost 180 quotes, by far the most prolific. The comparatively taciturn Wellington by contrast has fewer than a hundred, Blucher a mere four and Archduke Charles only three. For other names from the era, Marshal Berthier gets nine quotes, Adm. Nelson gets 37, Clausewitz over 100.
Quotes range from the colorful, including General Lepic's "Heads up, for God's sake! Those are bullets-not turds!" to the instructive, such as Clausewitz's "Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war...Countless minor incidents-the kind you can never really foresee-combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls far short of the intended goal...." Compulsive browsing is always a danger with books of this nature.
Within the subject arrangement the quotes are arranged chronologically. Arrangement by subject matter and time allows for interesting juxtapositions of quotes such as Wellington stating, "It is necessary to attend to all this detail and to trace a biscuit from Lisbon into a man's mouth on the frontier and to provide for its removal from place to place by land or by water, or no military operations can be carried out." And Napoleon's statement, "...If [a commander] allows himself to be guided by the supply officers he will never move and his expedition will fail." This arrangement is not, however, useful for finding a specific quote, but as mentioned elsewhere an index does provide page references to the most famous quotations. No keyword index, familiar to connoisseurs of quotation books, is included, but such an index would only increase the weight as well as the cost of the volume.
Finding aids include a table of contents listing all the topics included in the book and four useful indexes. These indexes include one for quickly locating "Well-Known Quotations" such as "England expects..." or "An army marches on its stomach." About 600 quotes are so identified.
A second index, a "Biographical Index," lists alphabetically all the authors of the quotes, plus the authors' dates and a few words identifying them. Page references to all their quotes are given, but column or page location of a given quote is not indicated. With only about ten quotes to a page, locating an individual quote is not difficult. The editor does indicate, however, incidences where more than a single quote appears on a page. Also included is an "Index of Battles and Campaigns," where one can find such quotes as "...next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained...." (Waterloo) or "Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!" (Battle of the Pyramids). Finally an "Index of Generals, Soldiers and War Leaders" is provided which points to quotes by others about famous military men, such as J.F.C. Fuller's comment, "Do not let my opponents castigate me with the blather that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, for the fact remains geographically, historically and tactically, whether the great Duke uttered such nonsense or not, that it was won on the fields of Belgium, by carrying out a fundamental principle of war, the principle of mass..." Lastly, a bibliography of the works used in compiling this collection is included.
Every review must include a few quibbles and this one will be no exception. Tsoras references every quote, but in many instances these references are to secondary sources, rather than the original source. However one may in many instances find the origin of the quote from that secondary source. For example, the editor may reference C. Herold's Mind of Napoleon, and that work usually does provide a direct reference to the original source. A cross reference from a subject heading to related topics might be helpful, such as pointing from "Casualties" to "The Wounded"- the difference between these two related topics may not be apparent to the reader at first glance. Tsouras quotes the so-called mot de Cambronne, adding that the "Guard dies but does not surrender" is apocryphal, but does not call the more earthy quote into question.
In the final analysis, Tsouras has continued to improve and expand this entertaining and informative volume. Whether you are a student looking for choice quotes for a paper, a military man seeking "comfort," or a military history buff, whether you are just browsing or looking for an apropos quotation, you will find much of value in these pages.
Words of Wisdom.......2001-06-20
Greenhill has done it again, giving us a superb volume that is of immense help to researchers, historians, and history buffs. Edited by Peter Tsouras, and enlarging his original work, Warrior's Words, this exhaustive, interesting, and most useful volume gives us insight into such well-known great commanders and leaders as George Washington, Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington, George Patton, and Norman Schwartzkopf, as well as lesser known professionals and masters of the art of war as Turenne, Folard, Lloyd, Belisarius, Xenophon, and Scharnhorst.
The scope of the volume is immense, from earliest recorded history to the present day. Flipping through the numerous categories, such as morale, chief of staff, loyalty and myriad others, reading the recorded wisdom of those who have hefted spear and shield, sword and buckler, shield and pilum, pike and musket, and musket and bayonet on battlefields from ancient Troy to Kuwait and Iraq. Each quotation is documented and the entire volume is a thorough study of both quotations and the minds of those who spoke the words.
This book is vital to the study of military history. It is logically arranged, the quotes are pertinent both to historian and today's military professionals, and is loaded with interesting information and interesting, snap-shot glimpses into the minds of the authors, sometimes revealing their character.
I especially enjoyed the dedication from LtCol Tsouras, to the US Marine Corps, referring to them as the 'velociraptors in an age of sheep' and 'America's touchstone of valor.' In my opinion, he hit the nail on the proverbial head. As one who wore the Marine Corps uniform in both peace and war, my hat is off to you, LtCol Tsouras, and thanks for the compliments. That, and your excellent effort with this book, speaks volumes for your character and knowledge. Well done.
If you don't own this book, you are cheating yourself of an immense opportunity and intellectual treat. We all owe LtCol Tsouras and Greenhill a very large vote of thanks.
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What did the founders of America think about religion? Until now, there has been no reliable and impartial compendium of the founders' own remarks on religious matters that clearly answers the question. This book fills that gap. A lively collection of quotations on everything from the relationship between church and state to the status of women, it is the most comprehensive and trustworthy resource available on this timely topic.
The book calls to the witness stand all the usual suspects--George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams--as well as many lesser known but highly influential luminaries, among them Continental Congress President Elias Boudinot, Declaration of Independence signer Charles Carroll, and John Dickinson, "the Pennsylvania Farmer." It also gives voice to two founding "mothers," Abigail Adams and Martha Washington.
The founders quoted here ranged from the piously evangelical to the steadfastly unorthodox. Some were such avid students of theology that they were treated as equals by the leading ministers of their day. Others vacillated in their conviction. James Madison's religious beliefs appeared to weaken as he grew older. Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, seemed to warm to religion late in life. This compilation lays out the founders' positions on more than seventy topics, including the afterlife, the death of loved ones, divorce, the raising of children, the reliability of biblical texts, and the nature of Islam and Judaism.
Partisans of various stripes have long invoked quotations from the founding fathers to lend credence to their own views on religion and politics. This book, by contrast, is the first of its genre to be grounded in the careful examination of original documents by a professional historian. Conveniently arranged alphabetically by topic, it provides multiple viewpoints and accurate quotations.
Readers of all religious persuasions--or of none--will find this book engrossing.
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A little for everyone.......2006-08-16
The Founders on Religion edited by James H. Hutson is, like most books of quotations, not exactly a book that is fascinating to read straight through from cover to cover. It is more a book that you keep on the shelf to be used as a reference when preparing correspondence, a talk, or a blog entry on a particular topic. To that end, Hutson has simplified matters by categorizing the quotations by topic instead of by Founding Father. The drawback of such a sort is that you do not see the philosophy of any of the Founding Fathers. You could, on the basis of many of Thomas Jefferson's quotes for instance, consider him a devoutly religious man. Other quotations wherein he details his "picking and chosing" of bible selections, literally cutting some verses out of his bible while keeping others, indicates that his religion was one-of-a-kind. You also cannot see the changes in a particular person's viewpoint through their lifetime or to particular politically charged situations. We certainly see the politicians of our day emphasize different beliefs to fit the situation and there is no reason to think it was otherwise 200 years ago.
One of the things I found exceedingly interesting was how many of the ideas and beliefs that I had assumed were new and fundamental to the newly organized Mormon church in 1830 were, in fact, very much the topics of the day in the early 1800's. These were such things as the end of the world, the restoration of Israel, the return of the Ten Lost Tribes, and the origin of the American Indian. Growing up, Joseph Smith could have even heard discussions of these topics from John Adams himself, an idea I had never considered.
This book, although only mildly slanted in favor of Christianity and godly belief, is not comprehensive. It would be a useful addition to a reference bookshelf but certainly wouldn't be my first choice for Founding Fathers' quotes.
A Handy and Valuable Resource.......2006-04-19
James H. Hutson has done anyone who writes or speaks about religion a huge favor. By collecting our founding father's thoughts on more than 70 religious topics, he has offered insight into the extrordinary minds and convictions of the people who founded this country.
Quotations on the after-life, death of loved ones, divorce, child rearing, reliability of biblical texts, Judism and Islam are offered from founders who range from pious to unorthodox.
Calling on the usual -- and even some unusual -- suspects Hutson offers quotations that transcend time. The utterances prove provacative, warm, funny, heartfelt and wise. Hutson even includes quotations from two founding mothers - Martha Washington and Abigal Adams.
Well-researched, highly-usable and often amusing, this book is a must for history lovers and those who just like to think, write or discuss religion.
A book of quotations - not analysis of them.......2006-02-20
There is no question that many of the "Founding Fathers" were people of faith with deep religious convictions who felt the miraculous formation of this country was "guided by Providence." This is seen for one in The Declaration of Independance which references a "guiding higher power" several times. (Yet, the Constitution is silent about the same - go figure). In the search for historical context of such issues, this book serves the need for a reliable source of quotations that covers as wide a range of subject matter in an unbiased manner.
The author is a professional historian with the Library of Congress and former faculty member of Yale and William and Mary Colleges and has scoured many primary sources to assemble this collection of quotes of many key figures in the early formation of this country. Not surprisingly, the overall approach and tone is highly academic with meticulous referencing. Part of the motivation of this new compilation is the author's professional frustration for existing "quote books" on the same topic which, according to him, are riddled in bias and piecemeal scholarship. Maybe, but this book sets a clear tone of historical scholarship according to accepted practices in the field that should be acceptable to people of all persuasions.
It is important to realize this is a book listing quotations and not an analysis, distillation or commentary about them - or as to what they could imply today (for that, Jon Meacham's 2006 book, "American Gospel" is worth reading). The author merely presents the "data" and lets the reader come to his/her own conclusions. As such it is a valuable reference on the topic. What is unique about the organization here is that it is by TOPIC rather than by person being quoted. This allows one to zero-in on topics of most interest. For those most interested in chuch-state issues, several topics will give related quotes: America, American revolution, the Bible, Christianity, Christian nation, Church & State, Constitution, Law, Liberty of conscience, Providence, Freedom of Religion, Social unity of religion. If your interest is in the various faiths (or none) of the founders, topics include Athiesm, Calvinism, Catholicsm, Clergy, Ecumenicism, Creeds, Deism, Episcopalians, Jesus, Jews, Presbyterians, Quakers, Unitarianism. Other unique topics that reveal some personal perspectives and beliefs are war, women, Islam, slavery, Native Americans, the afterlife, marriage, divorce and reason.
There are a few limitations and challenges to this book. The first is the 18th-century language which can be a bit hard to assimilate. I had to read many quotes several times to get the jist (they seem to like run-on sentences). Second, there is no context given with the quotes (by design to limit the size). As a quote should only be as good as its known context, this is a limitation to further analysis. For example, many readers would want to see the entire context of Jefferson's famous letter to the Danbury Baptist Association where he first used the now-legendary phrase, "a wall of separation." And, as other reviewers note below, not all major figures are represented in the quotes - Thomas Paine for example. Last - and again one of context - is the fact that the views of some being quoted changed as they matured.
You'll find the many of the familiar quotes from Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Jay, Franklin, Dickinson, Rush and others of their faith in God, the belief in "Providence" as well as their views on many social customs and even their presonal struggles. But, as many of the quotes reveal, they also had equally-strong convictions to not impose or coerce others into a "state-mandated religion" - in keeping with the principle of "freedom of conscience" and free will that their beliefs required. This should not be so surprising since, after all, they came to this land from oppressive Europe to be free. To those already familiar with the topic, there should be some new gems the author dug up in more obscure sources that "offer readers a richer and livelier selection of statements about the religion of Founders than is now available." Some of these include several prominent women of that era.
So, in all, this seeems a reliable book that gives "a careful examination of the original documents by a professional historian that provides multiple viewpoints and accurate quotations." As such, it makes a valuable contribution to understanding what were the various personal beliefs of the founders and how they influenced the formation of the United States of America. Lastly, here is one quotation from Jefferson I thought was interesting and revealed how the Founder's beliefs provided a foundation for personal liberty that did not imply the goal of a unified religious society (as some rightly feared then and now). As the book shows, many were of the same mind as Jefferson.
"Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his almighty power to do, but by extend it by the influence of reason alone." (Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1777).
Concise but not as fair as it should be........2005-12-17
I agree with the previous reviewer's sound and well-expressed assessment, but only up to a point. This book is skewed in that it includes only certain members of the Revolutionary generation and only certain kinds of quotations from the included members. As to those excluded, Thomas Paine is an astonishing omission. Paine was a central figure in the American Revolution to his time, and his AGE OF REASON is rightly deemed a major statement on religion that deserved closer attention. So, too, Ethan Allen, the leader of the Green Mountain Boys and a founder of Vermont, wrote a book in which he advanced a powerful argument for atheism and freethinking. Even as to the people quoted, Jefferson's rather disturbing comments on Judaism are carefully omitted -- some of the most pungent may be found in THE ADAMS-JEFFERSON LETTERS. All in all, it's a useful book, but not without problems of its own.
concise and fair.......2005-11-11
This is a nice little florilegium that will be useful to fair-minded readers. It's short enough to read at a sitting, and it's the work of a responsible professional -- none of the faked or doctored quotes that appear in similar compilations published by the religious right.
Readers seeking context for these quotations will have to look elsewhere, as they are generally presented without commentary. Jefferson's "wall of separation" draws a bare footnote that directs the reader to a chapter in a recent monograph, but gives no hint of what will be found there.
My only reservation about this is book is that omits Thomas Paine, except in that he appears as the target of two negative comments by other writers. Paine, the author of "Common Sense" and "The Crisis," surely has a far, far better claim to rank among the Founders than the likes of Elias Bodinot and Charles Carroll of Carrollton. He is also the only one of the Founders who actually published a book entirely devoted to religion that still has a place in the American literary canon: "The Age of Reason." Hutson's decision to suppress Paine's radical voice is a flaw in an otherwise excellent book.
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The DICTIONARY OF WAR QUOTATIONS
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Revised and expanded to include over 1,200 quotations, The Military Quotation Book brings together the wisdom of fallen heroes and living politicians, honored statesmen and rebellious writers-quoting official edicts as well as off-the-record remarks.Ten years ago, with World War II, Korea and Vietnam still sharp memories, James Charlton collected words of wisdom about the work of war, usually wise, often witty, all honoring the men and women who do that work.Although this new and expanded edition of The Military Quotation Book was readied for production before U.S. fighters were once more front-page news, it comes at a more than appropriate time.There are over 1,200 quotations, more than twice as many as previously. We hear from the generals and admirals of the past and present, from American presidents as well as from those at the bottom of the roster -- ordinary enlisted men and women from every branch.Civilians have their varying says as well. This gem of a book is a kaleidoscope of points of view, and every one hits its mark.For everyone who has his or her own take on the military, for history buffs, speechmakers, veterans and those serving now, The Military Quotation Book is a loaded canon of memorable expressions.
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One of the Greatest Political, and non Political Minds of the Millenium........2006-12-17
This book has all of the best quotes from Jefferson, and should be a must read for any intelligent being. Plus its rare, so get it while you can. It's even a pocket book that you can take with you, and pull it out when you need it, it also includes sketches of his house, and photo's and paintings, and its hardcover, so my advice is get it.
A Window Into a Mind.......2001-06-01
"Thomas Jefferson: His Life and Works" is a window into one of the greatest minds to ever enlighten the American continent. This short book is divided into eight sections, each dealing with a different aspect of Jefferson life or outlook. Each section begins with a brief introduction followed by a collection of quotations from Jefferson's writings. Some are drawn from well known public writings, such as the Declaration of Independence, whereas others are to be found in Jefferson's private correspondence. In most cases the source of the quotation is given, inviting the reader to conduct further study.
In the study of collections of quotations such as this, I often find the greatest insights not in the points which the speaker intended to make but in lessons to be learned by the contrast between the speaker's implied assumptions and the accepted standards of our day. An example of this is found in this book is Jefferson's statement on the public assemblies from which: "there would be excluded...women who, to prevent deprivation of morals ambiguity of issue, could not mix promiscuously in the public meetings of men." When I read statements such as this I think that, perhaps, the morals of our day do not compare unfavorably with those of past generations.
Overall I consider this book to be a good introduction into the mind and life of Thomas Jefferson. While only scratching the surface of his thought, it does provide a sources for some quotations with which to leaven our speech as well as providing an encouragement for further study.
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Thorough Reference.......2007-02-06
Overall, the book is a great resource for many military quotations but I discovered after the fact that it is somewhat dated. There were several quotations I was expecting to see included in the text that were absent. I would still recommend it unless one is looking for recent material.
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This is a distillation of the knowledge, intuition and wisdom of history's greatest military commander. Napoleon's success was built upon practical experience combined with his own study of classical warfare and his natural grasp of the key principles of war. His thoughts, theories and commentaries on the subject are here presented in the form of accessible and readable maxims and these, with explanatory comments, reveal the fundamentals of Napoleon's art of waging war. David Chandler has added to the explanatory comments and provided the necessary context for modern readers to compare Napoleon's principles with the experience of war in the modern age. This revealing guide presents Napoleon's principles of war and his art of conducting statecraft; it is a fascinating insight into a great mind and a unique collection of tenets on warfare in the Napoleonic era.
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Why not all the maxims???????.......2001-10-25
Napoleon's Maxims totalled more than ninety, and the totality of ALL of these are invaluable to the student of military history. Yet only a fraction of them were translated in the original volume that first appeared in the early 20th century; even worse, Chandler did not complete the job since this would have been a golden opportunity to showcase the previously ommitted and rarely-seen Maxims. Hopefully, some historian will do the complete job the next time.
Napoleon's Wisdom.......2000-05-08
Here is a distillation in one slim volume of the knowledge and wisdom of history's greatest military commander. Napoleon's unparalleled success was built on practical experience combined with his own study of the great empire-builders, from Alexander to Fredrick the Great--and the essence of what he learned from them is incorporated in this book
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- Urgent Fury: The Battle for Grenada (Issues in Low Intensity Conflict)
- Waffen-SS Encyclopedia
- War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General, Two Other Anti=Interventionist Tracts, and Photographs from the Horror of It
- When the Wind Blows
- Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime SarajevoRevised Edition
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