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Strategy Six Pack 3 (Hardcover)
Jacob Abbott, Willis J. Abbot, Cyprian Bridge, William Garrott Brown, Edward Shepherd Creasy, …
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Strategy Six Pack 3 presents a classic sextet of tactical texts:
Sea Power by Cyprian Bridge Xerxes by Jacob Abbott Joan of Arc by
Edward Shepherd Creasy Elements of Military Art and Science by H.
W. Halleck Andrew Jackson by William Garrott Brown Aircraft and
Submarines by Willis J. Abbot Halleck's Elements of Military Art
and Science is a timeless manual that is required reading in
military schools. There is also Sea Power by Cyprian Bridge and
Willis J. Abbot's Aircraft and Submarines, the definitive work on
early pre-World War I flying machines, an aviation buff's delight.
Plus a look at Joan of Arc's defeat of the English at Orleans, a
biography of Old Hickory, President Andrew Jackson and a study of
Xerxes, the infamous Persian potentate who invaded Greece in 480 BC
with an army of five million.
A naval officer from a generation that could spend an average of
between 250 and 300 days a year at sea, Sir Cyprian Bridge (1839
1924) used this extensive experience and the knowledge he gained
from wide reading to become a highly respected commander, firm in
his beliefs and unafraid to voice them. In retirement he became a
vocal critic of the drive to build bigger ships, believing that
hardware should be subordinate to tactics. A regular contributor to
newspapers, he wrote articles on naval history, tactics and
strategy. This collection of articles was published in 1910, and
includes his well-known paper, first delivered in 1902, setting out
the difficulties in maintaining supplies and communications with a
fleet based far from home. This work remains relevant to naval
historians, and to those interested in how Britain maintained her
maritime supremacy into the twentieth century.
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