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| Title |
A short history of warfare / by David H. Zook, Jr. and Robin Higham. Foreword by B.H. Liddell Hart. |
|---|---|
| Contributors |
Higham, Robin, 1925-2015 (author) |
| Publisher |
New York : Twayne Publishers |
| Creation Date |
[1966] |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-471). |
| Content |
INTRODUCTION TO WAR -- GREEK WARFARE -- Character of Greek war -- Persian war -- Marathon (21 September 490 B.C.) -- Salamis (23 September 480 B.C.) -- Peloponnesian War -- Theban power -- Alexander of Macedon -- ROMAN WARFARE -- Republican military system -- The Punic wars -- Emergence of imperial Rome -- Adrianople (9 August 378) -- THE CAVALRY AGE -- Western warfare -- Byzantine warfare -- The Crusades -- The Mongols -- THE TRANSITION FROM FEUDAL TO MODERN WAR -- Feudal warfare -- The Hundred Years War -- Advent of gunpowder -- The Swiss -- The Italian wars -- TRANSITIONS IN NAVAL WARFARE -- Lepanto (7 October 1571) -- The Armada (July-August 1588) --Seventeenth century naval tactics -- WAR IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- The Thirty Years War -- The English Civil War -- The wars of Louis XIV -- EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WARFARE -- Marlborough -- Charles XII in the Great Northern War -- Saxe -- The Seven Years War -- The evolution of naval warfare -- THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION -- THE WAR OF 1812 -- THE LIBERATION SPANISH SOUTH AMERICA -- THE NAPOLEONIC WARS -- Revolutionary warfare -- The Rise of Napleon Bonaparte -- THE FALL OF NAPOLEON -- INTERPRETERS OF NAPOLEON -- THE MEXICAN WAR -- THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: THE STAGE AND OPENING ACTONS -- First Bull Run (21 July 1861) -- Forts Henry and Donelson (6-16 February 1862) -- Shiloh (6 April 1862) -- New Orleans (18-24 April 1862) -- THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: THE CULMINATING POINT -- The Peninsula Campaign, First Phase -- The Peninsula Campaign, Final Actions -- Second Bull Run (29-30 August 1862) -- Antietam (17September 1862) -- Fredericksburg (13 December 1862) -- Murfreesboro (31 December 1862-3January 1863) -- Chancellorsville (1-6 May 1863) -- Gettysburg (1-3 July 1863) -- Vicksburg (4 July 1863) -- THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: DEFEAT OF THE SOUTH -- Chickamauga (19-20 September 1863 and the Battles Around Chattanooga (24-25 November 1863) -- The Wilderness-Cold Harbor Campaign -- The Atlanta Campaign -- SMALL WARS AND GROWING TENSIONS -- Developments in means -- European armed forces -- The crimean War, 1854-1855 -- The Italian War, 1859 -- The War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870 -- The Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878 -- Colonial Conflict, and the Boer War, 1899-1902 -- THE WARS OF GERMAN UNIFICATION -- The Prussian general staff -- The impact of the railroad -- Moltke's Wars -- The development of German military thought --French military thought -- Bloch -- THE COMING OF TWENTIETH CENTURY SEAPOWER -- War of the Pacific, 1879-1883 --Mahan -- The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 -- The Naval Race -- The Italo-Turkish and Balkan Wars, 1911-1913 -- THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR -- The Inidan wars -- The war with Spain -- The Philippine Insurrection, 1899-1902 -- The root reforms -- THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE FAILURE TO ACHIVE A QUICK DECISION IN 1914 -- THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE YEARS OF STALEMATE, 1915-1917 -- THE FIRST WORLD WAR: AT SEA, IN THE AIR -- The Naval War -- The War in the air -- The origins of air forces -- Early use of airpower -- Quest for air superiority -- Airships -- Strategic air war -- Air theory --THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE ROAD TO VICTORY -- America enters the war -- The end end of the war, 1918 -- The peace -- The Russian Civil War and allied intervention -- THE INTERWAR YEARS -- National armed forces -- The theorists -- The surface forces pudits -- The air power authors -- Peacetime wars -- Colonial campaigns -- The Chaco War and the Zarumilla Campaigns -- The Japanese invasion of China -- The Abysinnian War -- The Spanish Civil War -- THE SECOND WORLD WAR: THE OPEN PHASE, 1939-1941 -- The Polish Campaign -- The Sitzkrieg -- The Russo-Finnish War -- German success in the West -- The Battle of Britain -- The Middle East, 1940-1941 -- The Balkan Campaign -- THE HIGHER DIRECTION: THE NORTH AFRICAN AND ITALIAN CAMPAIGNS, 1942-1945 -- Grand strategic planning for global war -- THE WAR IN RUSSIA, 1941-1944 -- The First German Offensive, 1941 -- The Russian Winter Counter-offensive, 1942 -- The Second German Offensive, 1942 -- Russian offensives -- The Battle of Attrition, 1943-1944 -- THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC -- THE STRATEGIC AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST GERMANY, 1939-1945 -- The strategic air offensive -- The strategic bomber campaign -- The early ineffective years, 1939-1943 -- The USAAF joins the struggle -- The years of achievement, 1943-1945 -- "Operation pointblank" -- "Overlord" -- FINISHING OFF GERMANY, 1944-1945 -- The D-day Invasion -- Operaton Dragoon -- Pushing home the attak -- The Russian Campaign, summer and winter, 1944-1945 -- The Battle of the Bulge -- The Invasion of Germany -- THE JAPANESE GAMBLE IN THE PACIFIC, 1941-1942 -- Road to War -- The Attack on Pearl Harbor -- Securing the Southern Resources area -- Malaya -- First Burma Campaign -- The Indian Ocean -- The Philippines -- The East Indies -- Naval Action, Early developments -- Coral Sea -- Midway (3-4 June 1942) -- THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPAN, 1942-1945 -- The Australian lifeline and the southwestern Pacific Offensive, 1942-1944 -- The Central Pacific Campaign, 1942-1944 -- The liberation of the Philippines and the Battle of Leyte Gulf -- The Aleutians, 1943-1945 -- The China-Burma-India Theatre, 1942-1945 -- The defeat of Japan -- Iwo Jima -- Okinawa -- Air attacks upon the Japanese home islands -- The triumph of U.S. Navy submarines -- The advent of the atomic age -- ARMED FORCES IN A TRANSITIONAL AGE -- Military developments in the United States, 1945-1950 -- The Korean War -- The Generalship of Douglas MacArthur -- United States Military developments, 1953-1965 -- Russian military organizational changes -- British and French organizational changes -- Minor wars and quasi-military actions -- Arab-Israeli -- Berlin Blockade -- Suez -- Peace-keeping -- Communist guerrilla warfare. |
| Extent |
500 pages : illustrations, maps 22 cm. |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
990043718350205171 |
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