This reissue of Howard's classic text includes a short new afterword by the author. "Wars have often determined the character of society. Society in exchange has determined the character of wars. This is the theme of Michael Howard's stimulating book. It is written with all his usual skill and in its small compass is perhaps the most original book he has written. Though he surveys a thousand years of history, he does so without sinking in a slough of facts and draws a broad outline of developments which will delight the general reader."--A.J.P. Taylor, Observer

War in European history

History

Howard, Michael Eliot

Europe

Oxford University Press

The Lessons of History contains the reflections of one of Britain's historians during his time as Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. Some reflect on contemporary events but most are broadly concerned with the historical process which underlies international politics.

The lessons of history: An inaugural lecture delivered before the Vice-Chancellor and Fellows of the University of Oxford on Friday 6 March 1981

Clarendon Press

The Theory and Practice of War

Science & Math

Technology

Indiana Univ. Pr

This book is based on a series of lectures which were delivered at King's College, University of London, in 1956. The essays cover civil-military relations in Europe, Latin America, and Japan.

Soldiers and Governments: Nine Studies in Civil-Military Relations

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Greenwood Pub Group

Told from confidential documents? some of which remain closed for the foreseeable future? here is the precisely detailed story of the British government's campaign of strategic deception of the German High Command. A volume in the British Government's Official History of Intelligence in the Second World War, the book has been written by a master historian renowned for his eloquence as well as for his learning. The success of these operations can be measured by the fact that by 1943 the Germans were almost wholly dependent on double agents for news of what was going on in the United Kingdom; intercepted and decrypted radio traffic showed the Allies how extensively the enemy was accepting disinformation and acting on it. In Britain, extremely tight communications security made possible the apprehension and control of virtually all active enemy agents. Sir Michael Howard explains how the British were able to deceive the Germans about the strategic intentions of the Allies and make them greatly overestimate Allied resources. Here is the most authoritative account available of such classic deception operations as Operation Mincemeat, which preceded the invasion of Sicily; the nonexistent U.S. Army group that pinned down an entire German Army in the Pas de Calais until Montgomery's forces had achieved a secure foothold in Normandy; and the amazing trick played on the German intelligence authorities by the great double agent Garbo.

Strategic Deception in the Second World War

Military

W.W.Norton&Company

Studies in War and Peace (Modern Revivals in Military History)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Gregg Revivals

Continental Commitment: The Dilemma of British Defence Policy in the Era of the Two World Wars

Humanity Books

This classic account of the Allies' Mediterranean Strategy in the Second World War is from a series of lectures delivered by Michael Howard (who himself had taken part in the Italian campaign as an infantry platoon commander) at a time when he was involved in writing the volume of the official history of the war concerned with British grand strategy - a task that gave him access to information contained in official records not then available to the public.The generally held view after the war ended was that the British strategy for striking up into central and eastern Europe from the south was frustrated by American determination to concentrate its major resources on the cross-Channel invasion of 1944. The records Michael Howard consulted, however, revealed another picture: in the no man's land between two different cultures Britain failed to convince her ally that with the postponement of the cross-Channel invasion until 1944 the weaker of the Axis partners should be attacked in force as a preliminary, and not as an alternative.In this clear and readable explanation of how the Mediterranean strategy evolved, Sir Michael Howard shows how British strategy developed during the early years of the war; how, with the advent of America into the war at the end of 1941, the strategy for what happened in the Mediterranean evolved; and he ends with a study of what happened during the hard-fought bitter campaign in southern Europe during the years 1943-4, and the conclusions to be drawn.

The Mediterranean Strategy in the Second World War

Greenhill Pr

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