Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim is a legendary figure, whose life and career were deeply influential in Finnish and European history. He is viewed by many as the father of modern Finland after leading the
One of the most powerful men in late antiquity, Attila's peerless Hunnic empire stretched from the Ural to the Rhine river. In a series of epic campaigns dating from the AD 430s until his death in AD
Mustafa Kemal was one of the 20th century's greatest combat commanders. Winston Churchill labeled him as a 'Man of Destiny', his service at Gallipoli and in the War of Independence were pivotal in the
Ulysses Grant was the United States greatest general since George Washington. Like Washington, Grant's battlefield performance in the Civil War was the only factor standing between the United States c
Reknowned for originating Chindit guerilla warfare raiding during World War II in Burma, the maverick Orde Wingate (1903-44) served across Africa and the Middle East before finding fame in southeast A
Towards the end of the 16th century three outstanding commanders brought Japan's century of civil wars to an end, and even though reunification was first achieved under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, it was his
Yamamoto Isoroku is the most well-known of Japan's military leaders and his name will be forever linked to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Because the attack was such an apparent success, he has gone dow
General Omar Bradley was the premier US Army tactical commander in the European Theater of Operations in 1944-45. A West Point classmate of Dwight Eisenhower, Bradley was the quintessential US field c
Zhukov was the dominant figure in the Red Army during World War II even though his actual job title varied from day to day. Serving as a senior General Staff representative from the Stavka, Zhukov mov
Pompey, or Pompey the Great, was one of the best military leaders of the late Roman Republic. His campaigns against the Marians, his battles in Hispania and his defeat of the Mediterranean pirates lau
Dwight Eisenhower represented a fundamentally new type of military commander in the 20th century: commander as manager rather than the traditional warrior commander. Armies had become so large and mil
The most famous admiral in history, Horatio Nelson's string of naval victories helped secure Britain's place as the world's dominant maritime power, a position she held for more than a century after N
'Bill' Slim was one of the greatest British generals of World War II. In a career that stretched from 1914 until 1958 Bill Slim's greatest triumphs came in India and Burma in the long war against the
This volume details the military career and accomplishments of Walther Model, the youngest Generalfeldmarschall in the Wehrmacht in World War II and Hitler's favorite commander. His role on the Easter
1942 was a crucial year for the fortunes of Bomber Command. The newly appointed Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Sir Arthur Harris, knew he had to show quickly that his Bomber Command could make a rea
To succeed as a Linux administrator, you need to keep track of scores of commands, keywords, command arguments, options, and prompts – and the latest CompTIA Linux+ (Powered by LPI) exams test you on
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**Warning: This book features a Dominant alpha man who will push your boundaries until you beg for more. Read at your own risk.**Blake Roberts is falling hard for his old flame and won't stop until Er
An unconventional war requires unconventional men—the Special Forces. Green Berets ‧ Navy SEALS ‧ Rangers ‧ Air Force Special Operations ‧ PsyOps ‧ Civil Affairs ‧ and other special-mission
August 1942 saw the creation of the Pathfinder Force. Its task was to mark targets for the groups of bombers which followed them with a precision that called for reckless heroism. Between 1939 and 194
"Intended for a general readership, Decisions of the 1862 Kentucky Campaign introduces readers to critical decisions made by both Union and Confederate commanders who faced harrowing situations and at
An ancestor of his being a Confederate general there, Peterson studied the November 1863 Battle of Chattanooga in detail, and concluded that, while there was an element of luck in the US victory,
Powell’s book assumes that readers will have a basic working knowledge of the course of the events of the battle of Chicamauga, described as the most confusing of all the Civil War battles: the te
This history for general readers and scholars examines the actions of commanders on both sides of the Battle of Second Manassas during the Civil War, looking at 14 critical decisions made by Confed
