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. [...]
Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to 1918 reveals how and why the Germans won the major battles with one-half to one-third fewer casualties than the Allies, and how American troops in 1918 s[...]
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 [...]
The Battle of Verdun during the First World War stands as one of history's greatest clashes. Yet it is also one of the most complex and misunderstood.
Although British historians have always seen Verdun as a one-year battle designed by the German chief of staff to bleed France white, historian [...]