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  • Famous Battles and How They Shaped the Modern World

    C. 1200 BCE–1302 CE, From Troy to Courtrai

    by Beatrice Heuser, Athena S. Leoussi ...
    This first of two books on pivotal battles in Western Civilisation and their legacy in politics, history & society focuses on ancient & medieval times.Why are some battles remembered more than others? Surprisingly, it is not just size that matters, nor the number of dead, the 'decisiveness' of battles or their effects on communities and civilisations. It is their political afterlife—the multiple ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Napoleon's Military Maxims

    by Napoléon Bonaparte, David G. Chandler, Beatrice Heuser ...
    This classic work is a distillation of the knowledge, intuition and wisdom of one of history's greatest military commanders. Napoleon's success was built upon practical experience combined with his own study of classical warfare and his natural grasp of the key principles of war. His thoughts and theories on the art of waging war are presented here in the form of accessible and readable maxims. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Famous Battles and How They Shaped the Modern World, 1588–1943

    From the Armada to Stalingrad

    by Beatrice Heuser, Athena S. Leoussi ...
    Why are some battles remembered more than others? Surprisingly, it is not just size that matters, nor the number of dead, the decisiveness of battles or their effects on communities and civilisations. It is their political afterlife the multiple meanings and political uses attributed to them that determines their fame. This ground-breaking series goes well beyond military history by exploring the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flawed Strategy

    Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions

    by Beatrice Heuser ...
    Why did Volodymyr Zelensky doubt that Russia was preparing a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022? Why did British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain decide to 'do business with Herr Hitler' in Munich in 1938? And how was it that Israeli elites dismissed intelligence warnings of the Hamas attack in 2023? Had they not learned their lesson from the Egyptian‒Syrian attack on Yom Kippur fifty years ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Reading Clausewitz

    by Beatrice Heuser ...
    Clausewitz's On War, first published in 1832, remains the most famous study of the nature and conditions of warfare. Contemporaries found him 'endearing' or 'totally unpalatable', while later generations called him 'the father of modern strategical study', whose tenets have 'eternal relevance', or dismissed him as outdated. Was it really he who made the discovery that warfare is a continuation of ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Strategy: Volume 1, From Antiquity to the American War of Independence

    Edited by Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Beatrice Heuser ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Strategy
    Volume I of The Cambridge History of Strategy offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, to the late eighteenth century, from all parts of the world. Drawing on material evidence covering two and a half millennia, an international team of leading scholars in each subject examines how strategy was formulated and applied and with what tools, from ancient ... Read more

    $127.09 USD

  • War

    A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices

    by Beatrice Heuser ...
    War has been conceptualised from a military perspective, but also from ethical, legal, and philosophical viewpoints. These different analytical perspectives are all necessary to understand the many dimensions war, the continua on which war is situated - from small-scale to large-scale, from limited in time or long, from less to extremely destructive, with varying aims, and degrees of involvement ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Strategy

    Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present

    by Beatrice Heuser ...
    Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial 2010 account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Strategy: Volume 2, From the Napoleonic Wars to the Present

    Edited by Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Beatrice Heuser ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Strategy
    Volume II of The Cambridge History of Strategy focuses on the practice of strategy from 1800 to the present day. A team of eminent scholars examine how leaders of states, empires and non-state groups (such as guerrilla forces, rebel groups and terrorists) have attempted to practise strategy in the modern period. With a focus on the actual 'doing' of strategy, the volume aims to understand real ... Read more

    $127.09 USD

  • Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies

    National Styles and Strategic Cultures

    Edited by Beatrice Heuser, Eitan Shamir ...
    This book is a major new study of the extent to which national mentalities, or 'ways of war', are responsible for 'national styles' of insurgency and counterinsurgency. Leading scholars examine the ways of war of particular insurgent movements, and the standard operational procedures of states and occupation forces to suppress them. Through case studies ranging from British, American and French ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Strategy Before Clausewitz

    Linking Warfare and Statecraft, 1400-1830

    by Beatrice Heuser ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This collection of essays combines historical research with cutting-edge strategic analysis and makes a significant contribution to the study of the early history of strategic thinking.There is a debate as to whether strategy in its modern definition existed before Napoleon and Clausewitz. The case studies featured in this book show that strategic thinking did indeed exist before the last century, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Brexit in History

    Sovereignty or a European Union?

    by Beatrice Heuser ...
    This is a stimulating work with an original perspective on the most important existential question in the UK since the Second World War. Rather than focusing on the minutiae of the on-going crisis, Beatrice Heuser considers Brexit in the light of the dialectic of Empire, sovereignty and co-operative syntheses throughout history. The result is an impressive synthesis of the evolution of power ... Read more

    $18.99 USD