A study of the special techniques and skills needed for mountain warfare, from Alexander to Afghanistan. Includes the Austrian and Balkan fronts in WWI, the Winter War, Norway 1940, Arctic operations, Greece, Yugoslavia, Crete, the Italian Front in World War II, and Post WWII in the Balkans, Korea, and the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Chinese conflicts.

1989, Patrick Stephens, , 1852600144,< R-01>,304pp, 100 photos, illustrations, maps, Mint in d/w, ,
Subject...History & Development of Warfare - General
Web No. 10506-01..............................£6.00 

A study of the special techniques and skills needed for mountain warfare, from Alexander to Afghanistan. Includes the Austrian and Balkan fronts in WWI, the Winter War, Norway 1940, Arctic operations, Greece, Yugoslavia, Crete, the Italian Front in World War II and Post WWII in the Balkans, Korea, and the Indo-Pakistan and the Indo-Chinese conflicts.

1989, Patrick Stephens, , 1852600144,< R-01>,304pp, 100 photos, illustrations, maps, very good in d/w, ,
Subject...History & Development of Warfare - General
Web No. 10506-02..............................£5.00 

4th edition. Twenty-four tactical exercises dealing with the operations of small detached forces of the three arms, with numerous examples of actual orders. Spine faded and worn. original owner signature on front endpaper dated 1898. Rear pocket repaired with black tape. Light foxing on endpaper and some margins.

1897, Bliss, Sands & Co., , ,< R-01>,xxi + 551pp, fold-out maps in rear pocket, a poor copy of a very scarce book., ,
Subject...History & Development of Warfare - General
Web No. 14383-01..............................£50.00 

A study on battlefield tactics from the Napoleonic Wars, via The Crimea, The Great War and World War II, to Vietnam and the Yom Kippur War.

1981, Antony Bird, , 0907319017,< R-01>,xii + 228pp, diagrams, index, Good in faded d/w, ,
Subject...History & Development of Warfare - General
Web No. 829-02..............................£8.00 

Fighting tactics, from Waterloo to the near future. This is the second and greatly expanded edition. It includes a revealing study on British Infantry tactics of the Napoleonic period plus examinations of the use of Armour over infantry in World Wars I and II, small unit tactics and the experiences of the US in Vietnam.

1990, Crowood Press, , 1852230754,< R-01>,240pp., Mint. Storage wear only., ,
Subject...History & Development of Warfare - General
Web No. 829-01..............................£6.00 

Text in Swedish and Finnish. Four centuries of Military history in Finland. 97 pictures and plans. Foxing and ex libris sticker for previous owner on endpapers. Black boards.

1966, Werner Soderstrom , , ,< R-01>,180pp illustrations, , Swed.text,
Subject...History & Development of Warfare - General
Web No. 19774-01..............................£10.00 

Useful reference copy. Lamination lifting on front cover. Signs of use. Text unmarked. A masterful analysis of the fighting man from ancient times to the present. The narrative ranges across 4000 years of military history, starting with the forces that shaped the professional man-at-arms and his relevance today. Hackett comments on the citizen-soldiers of Sparta, the Legions of Rome, the age of Chivalry, the rise of Prussian militarism, the might of Napoleonic France, Britain's Imperial conquests and the rise of the US and Soviet superpowers in the Twentieth Century.

1984, Sidgwick and Jackson, , 0283991070,< R-01>,238pp col & b/w illustrations, , , CARD
Subject...History & Development of Warfare - General
Web No. 12161-02..............................£4.00 

A masterful analysis of the fighting man from ancient times to the present. The narrative ranges across 4000 years of military history, starting with the forces that shaped the professional man-at-arms and his relevance today. Hackett comments on the citizen-soldiers of Sparta, the Legions of Rome, the age of Chivalry, the rise of Prussian militarism, the might of Napoleonic France, Britain's Imperial conquests and the rise of the US and Soviet superpowers in the Twentieth Century.

1984, Sidgwick and Jackson, , 0283991070,< R-01>,239pp, 32 colour & 210 b/w ills., Vg in dw, ,
Subject...History & Development of Warfare - General
Web No. 12161-01..............................£8.00 

General Sir John Hackett's fascinating prediction of how a global war between the West and the Soviets could have been fought, primarily in Europe, in the nineteen eighties.

1978, Sidgwick and Jackson, , 028398449X,< R-01>,368pp, 58 photos, 9 maps., good in dw with faded spine, ,
Subject...History & Development of Warfare - General
Web No. 12185-01..............................£8.00 

General Hackett's study of how a war would be fought between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in the 1980s. The book was written with a team of advisers including Victor Suvorov, former Red Army officer, and Vladimir Bukovsky, a Soviet dissident.

1982, Sidgwick and Jackson, , 0283988630,< R-01>,xvii + 446pp, 52 photos, 7 maps., Good in dw, ,
Subject...History & Development of Warfare - General
Web No. 5202-01..............................£10.00