The Sword and the pen : selections from world's greatest military writings / prepared by Sir Basil Liddell Hart ; edited by Adrian Liddell Hart.
| Other author | Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, Sir, 1895-1970. |
| Other author | Liddell Hart, Adrian. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Crowell, ©1976. |
| Description | x, 282 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | From the book of Judges -- From the History of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides -- From the Anabasis / Xenophon -- From Politics / Aristotle -- From The art of war / Sun Tzu -- From Histories / Polybius -- From Commentaries / Julius Caesar -- From the Aeneid / Vergil -- From The general / Onasander -- From Annals / Tacitus -- From the Anabasis of Alexander / Arrian -- From Military instructions / Vegetius -- From History of the gothic wars / Procopius -- From Tactica / Leo -- From History of the world conqueror / Juvaini -- From The prince ; from The art of war / Niccolo Machiavelli -- From Voyages and discoveries / Richard Hakluyt -- From History of the world / Walter Raleigh -- From On the laws of war and peace / Hugo Grotius -- From the Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- Letter to the Honourable William Lenthal Esq. / Oliver Cromwell -- From Essays / Marquis of Halifax -- From Memoirs of a cavalier / Daniel Defoe -- From The conduct of the allies / Jonathan Swift -- From Reveries / Maurice de Saxe -- From Principles of mountain warfare / Jean de Bourcet -- From Memoirs ; from Military instructions / Frederick the Great -- From The military rhapsody ; from History of the late war in Germany / Henry Lloyd -- Letter to Major Rickson / James Wolfe -- From The science of conquering / Alexander Suvorov -- From Autobiography / Edward Gibbon -- From General essay on tactics / Jacques Antoine Hippolyte de Guibert -- Letter to Vice-Admiral Kersaint / John Paul Jones -- From A view to the formation, discipline and economy of armies / Robert Jackson -- From The Trafalgar memorandum ; from The diary / Horatio Nelson -- From Maxims ; from Memoirs / Napoleon Bonaparte -- From Despatches / Duke of Wellington -- Letter after Waterloo / Private Wheeler -- From Memoirs / Armand de Caulaincourt -- From Summary of the art of war / Antoine de Jomini -- From On war / Karl von Clausewitz -- From The charterhouse of Parma / Stendhal -- From Instructions for the commanders of large formations / Helmuth von Moltke -- Letter to General Hooker / Abraham Lincoln -- From White-jacket / Herman Melville -- Letter to Major R.M. Sawyer / William Tecumseh Sherman -- From Crimea despatches / William Howard Russell -- From Battle studies / Charles Ardant du Picq -- From War and peace / Leo Tolstoy -- From Modern weapons and modern war / Ivan Stanislavovich Bloch -- From The great memorandum / Alfred von Schlieffen -- From The military policy of the United States / Emory Upton -- From The influence of sea power upon the French Revolution / Alfred Thayer Mahan -- From The nation in arms / Comar von der Goltz -- From History of the art of war / Hans Delbrück -- From The principles of war / Ferdinand Foch -- From Stonewall Jackson / George Francis Henderson -- From Some principles of maritime strategy / Julian Corbett -- From The geographical pivot of history / Halford MacKinder -- From Transformation of war / Jean Colin -- From The nation at war / Erich Ludendorff -- From The war in the air / Herbert George Wells -- From The command of the air / Giulio Douhet -- From War and socialism ; from Left-wing childishness and petty-bourgeois morality / V.I. Lenin -- From The red badge of courage / Stephen Crane -- From Remembrance of things past / Marcel Proust -- From The river war / Winston Churchill -- From Memoirs of an unconventional soldier / John Frederick Charles Fuller -- From History of the Russian Revolution / Leon Trotsky -- From Report of the chief of staff / Douglas MacArthur -- From The evolution of a revolt ; from The seven pillars of wisdom / T.E. Lawrence -- From My struggle (Mein Kampf) / Adolf Hitler -- From Inside the Third Reich / Albert Speer -- From The edge of the sword / Charles de Gaulle -- From On guerilla warfare ; from Anti-Japanese guerilla warfare / Mao Tse-Tung -- From Anti-memoirs / André Malraux -- From The real war ; from Strategy / Basil Liddell Hart. |
| General note | "A Martin Dale book." |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: p. 275-280. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Sword and the pen. New York : Crowell, c1976 |
| LCCN | 75041448 |
| ISBN | 0690000529 |
| ISBN | 9780690000528 |