The Direction of War
Title | The Direction of War PDF eBook |
Author | Hew Strachan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2013-12-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107047854 |
A major contribution to our understanding of contemporary warfare and strategy by one of the world's leading military historians.
War & War
Title | War & War PDF eBook |
Author | László Krasznahorkai |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2006-04-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811220117 |
From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszla Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. War and War, Laszla Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked by thuggish teenagers and robbed; and from here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, but also keenly empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian town's archives an antique manuscript of startling beauty: it narrates the epic tale of brothers-in-arms struggling to return home from a disastrous war. Korim is determined to do away with himself, but before he can commit suicide, he feels he must escape to New York with the precious manuscript and commit it to eternity by typing it all on the world-wide web. Following Korim with obsessive realism through the streets of New York (from his landing in a Bowery flophouse to his moving far uptown with a mad interpreter), War and War relates his encounters with a fascinating range of humanity, a world torn between viciousness and mysterious beauty. Following the eight chapters of War and War is a short "prequel acting as a sequel," "Isaiah," which brings us to a dark bar, years before in Hungary, where Korim rants against the world and threatens suicide. Written like nothing else (turning single sentences into chapters), War and War affirms W. G. Sebald's comment that Krasznahorkai's prose "far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing."
On War
Title | On War PDF eBook |
Author | Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Military art and science |
ISBN |
Lifting the Fog of War
Title | Lifting the Fog of War PDF eBook |
Author | William A. Owens |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2001-12-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801868412 |
For the paperback edition, the author has written a new preface about the Bush administration's attitudes toward military reform.
Policy and Direction: the First Year
Title | Policy and Direction: the First Year PDF eBook |
Author | James F. Schnabel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Korean War, 1950-1953 |
ISBN |
The 33 Strategies Of War
Title | The 33 Strategies Of War PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Greene |
Publisher | Profile Books |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2010-09-03 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 1847651429 |
The third in Robert Greene's bestselling series is now available in a pocket sized concise edition. Following 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction, here is a brilliant distillation of the strategies of war to help you wage triumphant battles everyday. Spanning world civilisations, and synthesising dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts, The Concise 33 Strategies of War is a guide to the subtle social game of everyday life. Based on profound and timeless lessons, it is abundantly illustrated with examples of the genius and folly of everyone from Napoleon to Margaret Thatcher and Hannibal to Ulysses S. Grant, as well as diplomats, captains of industry and Samurai swordsmen.
Modern Strategy
Title | Modern Strategy PDF eBook |
Author | Colin S. Gray |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780198280309 |
Modern Strategy explains how strategic reasoning makes sense of the great complexity of war on land, at sea, in the air, in space and even cyberspace.