books by Hew Strachan

books by Hew Strachan

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Hew Strachan

Hew Strachan

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

Solid
Overall a solid book about WWI's Africa campaigns. Strachan does a good job breaking the campaigns up by region, while still helping to maintain any connections between the separate colonial battles. He also provides a solid background of social factors in the war in ...

The First World War: The War to End All Wars
Peter Simkins, Geoffrey Jukes, ...

Osprey Publishing, 2003

Raging for over four years across the tortured landscapes of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the First World War changed the face of warfare forever. Characterised by slow, costly advances and fierce attrition, the great battles of the Somme, Verdun and Ypres incurred human loss on a scale never previously imagined. This book, with a foreword ...

Clausewitz's on War (Books That Changed the World)

Hew Strachan

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007

On War - The Historian's View
Professor Hew Strachan's Clausewitz's On War is a worthy companion to the "Books that changed the world" series. His biography of Clausewitz and his magnum opus describe well the complexity and evolution that existed/developed in both author and work through the ...

Clausewitz's On War: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
Hew Strachan

Grove Press, 2008

Perhaps the most important book on military strategy ever written, Carl von Clausewitz?s On War has influenced generations of generals and politicians, has been blamed for the unprecedented death tolls in the First and Second World Wars, and is required reading at military academies to this day. But On War, which was never finished and was ...

European Armies and the Conduct of War
Hew Strachan

Routledge, 1988

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The First World War

Hew Strachan

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005

A Good Introduction
Hew Strachan has written an impressive, one-volume history of the First World War. When you consider the mounds of books on this topic over the last 90 years, that is a pretty impressive accomplishment in and of itself. We use this book as a text in the strategy ...

Carl Von Clausewitz's "On War": A Book That Shook the World (Books That Shook the World)

Hew Strachan

Atlantic Books, 2007

A Must for Clausewitz Scholars
Hew Strachan has written an extraordinarily insightful book on Clausewitz and his theory/philosophy of war. The book is important for two reasons: (1) it provides a useful corrective to the current over-indulgence with the Howard-Paret interpretation of Clausewitz's ...

Military Lives

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

The twentieth century saw two major world wars and many major and minor conflicts. Who made themselves known through their involvement in those wars and conflicts? Who do we remember? Who were the heroes of the army, navy, and airforce? Who should have been the heroes? What makes someone dedicate their life to the defence of a nation, whether it ...

The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

World War 1
The essays in this book are excellent. Writen by some of the greatest historians, of the First World War.

The First World War: Volume I: To Arms (First World War (Oxford Paperback))

Hew Strachan

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

The Best Book - For The Early Years
As noted by the author in his introduction, the intent of this first book and the books to follow is to be a replacement or updating of Cruttwell's well known work A History of the Great War published in 1934. The basic idea is to update that work and to include more ...

The Politics of the British Army
Hew Strachan

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

The British Army sees itself as politically neutral. Hew Strachan examines its history since 1660 and reveals that this is a facade. Despite the fact that the British Army - unlike many other armies - has never staged a coup d'etat, it is an inherently political entity, embedded in the fabric of the state, and intimately involved in the formation ...

Financing the First World War

Hew Strachan

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

How combatant nations actually paid for WWI
This exhaustively researched book by Hew Strachan examines how the principal combatant nations during WWI (UK, France, Russia, Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire) raised funds to pay for the war. Chapters in the book include: The Gold ...

The Outbreak of the First World War

Hew Strachan

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

A concise, indepth look at the war
First, a word of warning. This book is not for the casual reader. A good knowledge of the political and diplomatic events from about 1900 to August 1914 is needed to fully appreciate this book. Strachan expects the reader to be familiar with all of the major ...

Arnhem 1944 (Battles & Campaigns)

William F. Buckingham

Tempus, 2004

Superior Reappraisal of a Fascinating Operation
Operation Market-Garden is one of those operations of World War II that fascinate readers and military historians, mainly because it was so unusual, imaginative and daring: a assault by three famous airborne divisions to capture a series of bridges, allowing an ...

Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Illuminations of an enduring theory
Hew Strachan and Andreas Herberg-Rothe have produced an important - no, an essential - volume of articles that illuminate and explore the core ideas of Carl von Clausewitz. The results of an Oxford Conference on Clausewitz in 2006, the articles both engage current ...