This monumental work encompasses 2,500 years of military history, from infantry combat in ancient Greece through the dissolution of the Roman Empire to the Thirty Years' War and from the Napoleonic campaigns through World War II, which ...

Offers a chronological account of the Civil War, reexamines theories for the South's defeat, and analyzes Confederate and Union military strategy More than one hundred years after the South's surrender at Appomattox, Civil War battles rage ...

'The beginning student of Civil War military history will find the work an unmatched guide to how war was fought in the mid nineteenth century.

This book uses history in two ways: as the source of ideas about strategy and as examples to illustrate the elements by showing their application to specific campaigns and their utility in understanding the role of strategy in military ...

In this comparative history of Union & Confederate command & strategy, Jones shows us how the Civil War was actually conducted.

This account of the Gulf War focuses on both the military and political views. It highlights the role that modern military technology played in securing victory, and portrays the war as a defining moment in military and political history.

The Politics of Command reevaluates the continual controversy over strategy that occurred between Jefferson Davis and his high command, and within the command itself.

In this comparative history of Union and Confed. command and strategy, Jones shows us how the Civil War was actually conducted. Looking at decision-making at the highest levels, Jones argues that Pres.

Confederate Strategy from Shiloh to Vicksburg not only provides excellent information on the war in the West but also offers a useful perspective from which to study the war in other arenas.