A provocative reassessment of the military strategies of World War II notes how key war leaders were seduced by the quick-win promise of the breakthrough myth, presenting arguments that such events as the Polish campaign of 1939 and the fall of France in 1940 were not blitzkrieg victories. Reprint. [...]

A modest and unassuming man, Grant never lost a battle, leading the Union to victory over the Confederacy during the Civil War, ultimately becoming President of the reunited states. Grant revolutionized military warfare by creating new leadership tactics by integrating new technologies in classical [...]