Patton - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Patton write by Carlo D'Este. This book was released on 1996-09-27. Patton available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Patton: A Genius for War is a full-fledged portrait of an extraordinary American that reveals the complex and contradictory personality that lay behind the swashbuckling and brash facade. According to Publishers Weekly, the result is "a major biography of a major American military figure." "This massive work is biography at its very best. Literate and meaty, incisive and balanced, detailed without being pedantic. Mr. D'Este's Patton takes its rightful place as the definitive biography of this American warrior." --Calvin L. Christman, Dallas Morning News "D'Este tells this story well, and gives us a new understanding of this great and troubled man."-The Wall Street Journal "An instant classic." --Douglas Brinkley, director, Eisenhower Center
Genius for War
Genius for War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genius for War write by Trevor Nevitt Dupuy. This book was released on 1991-09. Genius for War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Wellington's Wars
Wellington's Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wellington's Wars write by Huw J. Davies. This book was released on 2012-06-26. Wellington's Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, lives on in popular memory as the "Invincible General," loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate--and controversial--new analysis of Wellington's remarkable military career. Unlike his nemesis Napoleon, Wellington was by no means a man of innate military talent, Huw J. Davies argues. Instead, the key to Wellington's military success was an exceptionally keen understanding of the relationship between politics and war.Drawing on extensive primary research, Davies discusses Wellington's military apprenticeship in India, where he learned through mistakes as well as successes how to plan campaigns, organize and use intelligence, and negotiate with allies. In India Wellington encountered the constant political machinations of indigenous powers, and it was there that he apprenticed in the crucial skill of balancing conflicting political priorities. In later campaigns and battles, including the Peninsular War and Waterloo, Wellington's genius for strategy, operations, and tactics emerged. For his success in the art of war, he came to rely on his art as a politician and tactician. This strikingly original book shows how Wellington made even unlikely victories possible--with a well-honed political brilliance that underpinned all of his military achievements.
Tactical Genius in Battle
Tactical Genius in Battle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tactical Genius in Battle write by Simon Goodenough. This book was released on 1979. Tactical Genius in Battle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Genius for Deception
A Genius for Deception - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Genius for Deception write by Nicholas Rankin. This book was released on 2009-11-10. A Genius for Deception available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was an old British trick," writes Nicholas Rankin. German general Erwin Rommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that Rommel knew. In fact, he counted on it--for these tents were empty. With the deception that he was carrying out a deception, Jones made a weak point look like a trap. In A Genius for Deception, Nicholas Rankin offers a lively and comprehensive history of how Britain bluffed, tricked, and spied its way to victory in two world wars. As Rankin shows, a coherent program of strategic deception emerged in World War I, resting on the pillars of camouflage, propaganda, secret intelligence, and special forces. All forms of deception found an avid sponsor in Winston Churchill, who carried his enthusiasm for deceiving the enemy into World War II. Rankin vividly recounts such little-known episodes as the invention of camouflage by two French artist-soldiers, the creation of dummy airfields for the Germans to bomb during the Blitz, and the fabrication of an army that would supposedly invade Greece. Strategic deception would be key to a number of WWII battles, culminating in the massive misdirection that proved critical to the success of the D-Day invasion in 1944. Deeply researched and written with an eye for telling detail, A Genius for Deception shows how the British used craft and cunning to help win the most devastating wars in human history.
