The Decisive Wars of History: A Study in Strategy.

LIDDELL HART, B.H.

Item Number: 132359

London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1929.

First edition of Liddell Hart’s classic analysis of the indirect approach to military strategy. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with 8 maps. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.

From one of the world's greatest military thinkers, The Decisive Wars of History presents the theory and history of the "indirect strategic approach" illustrated through a vivid outline of the major wars of the past two thousand years. From campaigns dating back to the Persian invasion of Greece in 490 B.C. to the German surrender in 1918, Liddell Hart demonstrates that throughout the ages, decisive results have almost always been reached only when the strategic approach has been indirect - coming from an undirected direction or in an unexpected form.