"The publication of Eisenhower's Lieutenants is an event of significance in American military writing.... admirable... clearly the product of exhaustive, painstaking research." The New York Times Book Review
..". the best account we have of the World War II campaigns from Normandy to the Elbe." American Historical Review
..". precisely informative and broadly rewarding." Kirkus Reviews
..". an outstanding and highly recommended work." Journal of American History
..". by the dean of American military historians... " Washington Post...
"The publication of Eisenhower's Lieutenants is an event of significance in American military writing.... admirable... clearly the product of exhau...
"The crowning achievement of one of America's most distinguished military historians." --Lincoln Prize jury
"Readers will find much to debate in this book--including... its affirmation that, because of emancipation, 'the Civil War calls for a rethinking of the attitude... that war is always futile, that its rewards never match its cost, that any conflict must be] immediately decisive and virtually without loss of American lives.'" --Gary W. Gallagher
"The crowning achievement of one of America's most distinguished military historians." --Lincoln Prize jury
"One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perhaps the ultimate futility, of war." Gunther E. Rothenberg
" A] highly scholarly and wonderfully absorbing study." John Bayley, The London Review of Books
"What Russell F. Weigley writes, the rest of us read. The Age of Battles is a persuasive reminder that even in the age of rational warfare, one can honestly wonder why war seemed an unavoidable policy choice." Allan R. Millett, The Journal of American History
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"One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perhaps the ultimate futility, of war." Gunther E. Rothenberg
..". a strong and stimulating book. It has no rival in either scope or quality. For libraries, history buffs, and armchair warriors, it is a must. For political science students, career diplomats, and officers in the armed services, its reading should be required." -History
"A particularly timely account." -Kansas City Times
"It reads easily but is not a popularized history... nor does the book become a history of battles.... Weigley's analyses and interpretations are searching, competent, and useful." -Perspective
..". a strong and stimulating book. It has no rival in either scope or quality. For libraries, history buffs, and armchair warriors, it is a must. ...
Great Captains Unveiled incisively examines the brilliant military careers and intriguing personalities of six masters of the battlefield: Jenghiz Khan (1167?-1227) and Sabutai (1172?-1245), who led their Mongol cavalry into the heart of medieval Europe and shook the fabric of its civilization; the French Marechal de Saxe (1696-1750), one of the greatest generals of his age, a military prophet of rare foresight, and author of Reveries, a classic on the art of war; Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632), the Swedish king during the Thirty Years War and the founder of the modern army, who...
Great Captains Unveiled incisively examines the brilliant military careers and intriguing personalities of six masters of the battlefield: Jeng...
Presenting a significant new interpretation of Napoleonic warfare, Robert M. Epstein argues persuasively that the true origins of modern war can be found in the Franco-Austrian War of 1809. Epstein contends that the 1809 war--with its massive and evenly matched armies, multiple theaters of operation, new command-and-control schemes, increased firepower, frequent stalemates, and large-scale slaughter--had more in common with the American Civil War and subsequent conflicts than with the decisive Napoleonic campaigns that preceded it. Epstein examines 1809 in terms of the evolving new...
Presenting a significant new interpretation of Napoleonic warfare, Robert M. Epstein argues persuasively that the true origins of modern war can be fo...
Some warriors are drawn to the thrill of combat and find it the defining moment of their lives. Others fall victim to fear, exhaustion, impaired reasoning, and despair. This was certainly true for twentieth-century American ground troops. Whether embracing or being demoralized by war, these men risked their lives for causes larger than themselves with no promise of safe return. This book is the first to synthesize the wartime experiences of American combat soldiers, from the doughboys of World War I to the grunts of Vietnam. Focusing on both soldiers and marines, it draws on histories and...
Some warriors are drawn to the thrill of combat and find it the defining moment of their lives. Others fall victim to fear, exhaustion, impaired reaso...
Russell Conwell David Adamany Russell Frank Weigley
Considered by many to be one of the finest speeches ever written, "Acres of Diamonds" offers a multitude of lessons about the rewards of work, education, and finding the riches of life in one's own back yard. In an era when many Americans would pack public halls to hear speeches given by the greatest citizens of their day, Russell Conwell read his world-famous lecture hundreds of times, and used the income he earned delivering it to found a small seminary to train Baptist ministers. That school soon grew into Temple University, one of the first universities to offer affordable education to...
Considered by many to be one of the finest speeches ever written, "Acres of Diamonds" offers a multitude of lessons about the rewards of work, educati...
