William T. Sherman (1820-1891)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. List of maps XVII
4. Foreword XIX
5. Preface to the American edition XXV
6. Preliminary Note XXIX
7. Maps XXX
8. Warfare and Strategic Cultures in History 1
9. 1. THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
10. The Kadesh Inscription (c. 1295 B.C.) 49
11. Deuteronomy (eighth-sixth centuries B.C.) 59
12. The Dead Sea Scrolls (first century B.C.?) 61
13. 2. GREECE AND ROME
14. Thucydides (c. 460-c. 399 B.C.) 67
15. Xenophon (c. 426-c. 354 B.C.) 82
16. Polybius (c. 202-c. 120 B.C.) 112
17. Julius Caesar (c. 101-44 B.C.) 125
18. Sallust (c. 86-c. 35 B.C.) 138
19. Josephus (c. A.D. 37-c. 100) 150
20. Onasander (first century A.D.) 154
21. Plutarch (c. A.D. 46-c. 120) 157
22. Tacitus (c. A.D. 55-c. 120) 165
23. Arrian (c. A.D. 92-175) 174
24. Cassius Dio (c. A.D. 155-235?) 197
25. Flavius Vegetius (late fourth century A.D.) 201
26. 3. CHINA
27. Sun Zi (fourth century B.C.) 221
28. Shang Yang (fourth century B.C.) 239
29. Ssu-ma Ch'ien (c. 145-c. 86 B.C.) 245
30. 4. INDIA
31. Kautilya (fourth century B.C.?) 287
32. 5. BYZANTIUM
33. Procopius (c. A.D. 500-565?) 335
34. Maurikios (c. A.D. 539-602) 348
35. Leo VI (A.D. 865-912) 356
36. Liutprand (c. A.D. 920-972) 376
37. Kritovoulos (c. 1410-?) 378
38. 6. THE ARAB WORLD
39. The Koran (seventh century) 387
40. Al-Muttaqi' al-Hindi (1477-1567) 388
41. Al-Bukhari (810-870) 391
42. Al-Tabari (c. 838-923) 392
43. Baha' ad-Din Ibn Shaddad (1145-1234) 405
44. Ibn Hudhayl al-Andalusi (fourteenth century) 410
45. Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) 415
46. 7. PERSIA
47. Kai Ka'us Ibn Iskandar (c. 1020-1085) 429
48. Nizam al-Mulk (1018-1092) 434
49. Al-Rawandi (thirteenth century) 441
50. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201-1274) 444
51. Mubarakshah (c. 1150-1224) 447
52. Sa'di (c. 1209-1291) 451
53. 8. THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
54. Ottoman Chronicle (fourteenth century) 455
55. Busbecq (1522-1592) 457
56. 9. MONGOLIA AND CENTRAL ASIA
57. Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233) 463
58. John of Piano Carpino (c. 1182-1252) 465
59. Ata Malik al-Juwayni (1226-1283) 475
60. Timur (1336-1405) 479
61. Babur (1483-1530) 491
62. 10. LIMITED WARS IN THE WEST
63. Jean Froissart (c. 1337-1404?) 501
64. Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) 508
65. Francisco de Jerez (c. 1497-?) 531
66. Niccoló Machiavelli (1469-1527) 535
67. Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540) 547
68. Walter Raleigh (1554-1618) 550
69. Richard Hakluyt (c. 1553-1616) 553
70. Duc de Richelieu (1585-1642) 556
71. Sébastien de Vauban (1633-1707) 560
72. Raimondo de Montecuccoli (1608-1681) 566
73. Jean de Folard (1669-1752) 570
74. Peter the Great (1672-1725) 577
75. Maurice de Saxe (1696-1750) 580
76. Frederick the Great (1712-1786) 596
77. Henry Lloyd (1729-1783) 609
78. Jacques de Guibert (1743-1790) 623
79. 11. THE AGE OF TOTAL WARS
80. Lazare Carnot (1753-1823) 629
81. Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) 641
82. Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) 643
83. Napoleon (1769-1821) 646
84. Denis Davydov (1784-1839) 653
85. J. F. A. Le Mière de Corvey (1770-1832) 662
86. Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) 671
87. Henri Jomini (1779-1869) 724
88. Thomas Bugeaud (1784-1849) 744
89. Shaka (c. 1787-1828) 747
90. Charles Ardant du Picq (1821-1870) 754
91. William T. Sherman (1820-1891) 760
92. Helmuth von Moltke (1800-1891) 767
93. Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) 770
94. Friedrich Ratzel (1844-1904) 782
95. Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) 787
96. Colmar von der Goltz (1843-1916) 808
97. Joseph Gallieni (1849-1916) 813
98. Alfred Schlieffen (1833-1913) 816
99. Charles Callwell (1859-1928) 819
100. Halford J. Mackinder (1861-1947) 821
101. Julian Corbett (1854-1922) 830
102. Friedrich von Bernhardi (1849-1930) 843
103. Jean Colin (1864-1917) 865
104. Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929) 868
105. V. I. Lenin (1870-1924) 871
106. Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) 874
107. T. E. Lawrence (1885-1935) 880
108. Giulio Douhet (1869-1930) 891
109. William Mitchell (1879-1936) 897
110. Hugh Trenchard (1873-1956) 905
111. James Connolly (1868-1916) 911
112. Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893-1937) 914
113. J. F. C. Fuller (1878-1966) 921
114. Basil Liddell Hart (1895-1970) 927
115. Raoul Castex (1878-1968) 932
116. Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) 937
117. Winston Churchill (1874-1965) 941
118. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) 943
119. Heinz Guderian (1888-1954) 949
120. Erwin Rommel (1891-1944) 957
121. Alexander de Seversky (1894-1974) 962
122. Nicholas Spykman (1893-1943) 966
123. Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) 974
124. Mao Ze-dong (1893-1976) 976
125. 12. THE NUCLEAR ERA
126. Bernard Brodie (1910-1978) 991
127. Albert Wohlstetter (b. 1912) 1004
128. Thomas C. Schelling (b. 1921) 1013
129. André Beaufre (1902-1975) 1023
130. Henry Kissinger (b. 1923) 1041
131. Lucien Poirier (b. 1918) 1056
132. Pierre M. Gallois (b. 1911) 1065
133. Principal subjects covered 1071