… 6 SCIENCE of WAR -- classic studies …
… CLAUSEWITZ … THUCYDIDES … LIDDELL
HART …
… GEN
PALMER … GEN HACKETT … SEN McCARTHY …
1. ON WAR … by Clausewitz … published 1832, this penguin copy 1968, multiple reprintings … PERFECT / MINT:
creaseless spine and covers, clean, smooth,
square; has superficial wear; text block is MINT … LOOKS
UNREAD …
… synopsis: … war: economic profit-seeking is equally applicable to the waging of war and negotiating for peace … philosophical
distinctions between ideal war, absolute war, and real war ... the relationship between political and military objectives …
… author: Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz was a 19th century military theorist who stressed moral, psychological, political
aspects of waging war … a prussian army officer who heroically served in napoleonic wars and wrote the systematic, philosophical
examination of war …
2. STRATEGY … by B.H. Liddell Hart … published 1954, this signet copy 1974, 12th printing … NEAR MINT: creaseless spine and covers, clean, smooth, square; has minor cover and edge wear with sticker inside facing page
… text block is MINT, clean, complete … LOOKS
UNREAD …
… synopsis: … key themes include: the indirect approach is better suited to democracy; military power relies on economic
endurance; victory emerges as the result of an enemy defeating
itself; and, negotiating an end to unprofitable wars …
… author: Sir B.H. Liddell Hart was a heroic british soldier in WWI, historian, educator, and influential, renown military
theorist …
3. THE 25-YEAR WAR by General Bruce Palmer, Jr … 1984, kentucky press, 1st printing … BRAND NEW: no
defects (creaseless spine and covers, clean, smooth, square); text block is PERFECT, clean, complete … CLEARLY
UNREAD …
… synopsis: military theorist who stressed moral, psychological, political aspects of waging war … he stressed the multiple,
diverse factors of war ... the book reports the chronological events up to the fall of saigon in 1975 … and the assessment
of
what was done right and wrong with the U.S. role …
… author: Gen Bruce Palmer, Jr was a multiple war veteran and commanded the XVIII airborne division in vietnam …
later he served as military liaison to the white house and army chief of staff
…
4. THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR … by Thucydides … written approx 400 bc; this penguin copy published 1954
with multiple printings until 1982 … NEAR MINT: creaseless spine and covers, clean, square; has minor cover and edge
wear; text block
is MINT, clean, complete … LIGHTLY READ …
… synopsis: the
ancient greek total war between the democratic Athenian alliance and the
oligarchical Sparta --between competing political ideologies ... the war
brought changes to Greek society and destruction caused by the war lead to
foreign domination and the end of the golden age of greece …
… author: Thucydides was an
athenian historian and general … he is considered the father of scientific
history of culture and war … who accept his claims to apply strict standards
of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect with
politics …
5. THE THIRD WORLD WAR … by Gen Sir JOHN HACKETT … 1981, berkley, 1st printing … NEAR MINT: creaseless spine and covers, clean, smooth, square; has minor cover and edge wear; text block is MINT, clean,
complete … LIGHTLY READ …
… synopsis: a hypothetical world war III between NATO and the warsaw pact -- written in the style of a non-fiction
historical retrospective interspersed with accounts of the nuclear and conventional conflict from the perspectives
of various people
and battle fronts …
… author: Gen Sir JOHN HACKETT was a distinguished australian-born british WWII officer soldier who served
in
palestine, europe, africa… a former escaped pow … post-WWII NATO army group
commander …
6. AMERICA'S RETREAT FROM VICTORY by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy … published 1951, this americanist
library copy 1965, 1st printing … NEAR PERFECT / MINT: creaseless spine and covers, clean, smooth, square;
has minor cover and edge wear; text block
is MINT, clean, complete … LOOKS UNREAD …
… synopsis: published at the height of “McCarthyism”, a period of intense anti-communist suspicion that harshly criticizes
General George C. Marshall - accusing him of being a soviet sympathizer and traitor n China through his post-WWII
policies like the
Marshall Plan (as a tool for Communist expansion) …
… author: Senator
Joseph R. McCarthy, the prominent figure in the anti-communist Red Scare
...
… HIGHEST quality … VINTAGE … non-fiction
… 5 mass market
paperbacks …
1 trade sized paperback books: approx 9 x 6 inches
…
*
request
mixing/consolidating with my other book listings …
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
* more info / pictures available upon request … from a private collection (not ex-library books), seller not a used-bookstore …
securely packaged (boxed) when
shipped … non-smoking household … previously stored vertical on cool, dry shelf …
* NEW is same as direct from the printer … not “almost-NEW”, not “LIKE-NEW” – but NEW : smooth, creaseless spine
and covers …
* if international
shipping, then only with eBAY Global Shipping Program …
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
* please review my other
listings for high quality books from my private collection … books for the book
lover, reader, and collector …
+++++++++++++++++++++++++