The Romantic Generation: Based on the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

Arts & Photography

Rosen, Charles

Music

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Leonhard Rauwolf: Sixteenth-Century Physician, Botanist, and Traveler

Biographies & Memoirs

DANNENFELDT, Karl H.

Leaders & Notable People

a source book in mathematics, 1200-1800

Hardcover with dust jacket. G/G. Dust jacket is edge chipped and scuffed; covered with mylar. Boards are edge worn and bumped.

The Intellectual Migration: Europe and America, 1930-1960

FLEMING, Donald and Bernard Bailyn (editors)

Malthus

Politics & Social Sciences

PETERSEN, William

Philosophy

Minds, Brains & Science

Searle, John

Horse Power A History of the Horse and the Donkey in Human Societies

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Clutton-Brock, Juliet

Pets & Animal Care

Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communications methods and technologies, weaponry, and logistics. And it analyzes the relationship between these problems and military strategy. 
 In vivid descriptions of key battles and campaigns--among others, Napoleon at Jena, Moltke's Königgrätz campaign, the Arab-Israeli war of 1973, and the Americans in Vietnam--van Creveld focuses on the means of command and shows how those means worked in practice. He finds that technological advances such as the railroad, breech-loading rifles, the telegraph and later the radio, tanks, and helicopters all brought commanders not only new tactical possibilities but also new limitations. 
 Although vast changes have occurred in military thinking and technology, the one constant has been an endless search for certainty--certainty about the state and intentions of the enemy's forces; certainty about the manifold factors that together constitute the environment in which war is fought, from the weather and terrain to radioactivity and the presence of chemical warfare agents; and certainty about the state, intentions, and activities of one's own forces. The book concludes that progress in command has usually been achieved less by employing more advanced technologies than by finding ways to transcend the limitations of existing ones.

COMMAND In WAR.

History

Creveld, Martin Van

Military

The second volume of A History of Private Life is a treasure-trove of rich and colorful detail culled from an astounding variety of sources. This absorbing “secret epic” constructs a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries.

History of Private Life, A: II Revelations of the Medieval World

Aries, Philippe & Georges Duby, Eds.

Reference

Bernadotte and the Fall of Napoleon (Harvard Historical Monographs)

Franklin Daniel Scott

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