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Military History and Strategy

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  • 01-06-2004 6:57pm
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    Woden
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    Hi i'm looking for recommended texts on military history and military strategy, mainly the 20th century but also the 19th Century, particularly interested in the politics that lead up to the major wars, the actual wars, equipment, weapons etc.

    and prefarebly books that are available in my local libraries.

    cheers

    data


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    Jim
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    Most Stephen E Ambrose books.

    He is the cheese.


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    Woden
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    cheers jim


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    Manach
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    A favourite subject of mine, which I need playing Civ III.
    you could try John Keegan, esp, his "6 armies in Normandy"


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    valen
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    Hodges Figgis have an excellent book, "A Military History of Ireland"
    by Thomas Bartlett (Editor), Keith Jeffery (Editor). It's about twenty short articles about all facets of Irish military history.

    Also, a slightly older book, but also excellent is;
    Irish Battles: A Military History of Ireland
    by G. A. Hayes-Mccoy. It walks through ten famous battles, and explains why they went the way they did, starting at Clontarf, and ending with 1798.

    John


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