Ardant du Picq's Battle Studies, Clausewitz's Principles of War, and Jomini's Art of War.

BATTLE STUDIES: ANCIENT AND MODERN BATTLE
By Colonel Ardant du Picq
Excerpt from Preface
In presenting to the American reading public a translation of a volume written by an obscure French colonel, belonging to a defeated army, who fell on the eve of a battle which not alone gave France over to the enemy but disclosed a leadership so inapt as to awaken the suspicion of treason, one is faced by the inevitable interrogation - "Why?"
Yet the answer is simple. The value of the book of Ardant du Picq lies precisely in the fact that it contains not alone the unmistakable forecast of...