This book contains the official memoirs of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, one of the most influential commanders of World War II and a key figure in the Allied victory in North Africa, particularly in the Battle of El Alamein. Montgomery describes his military career, the strategies he employed, his relationships with Allied leaders such as Eisenhower and Churchill, and various important…
Caesar's Commentaries on the Wars is a translation of Julius Caesar's classic work documenting his various military campaigns, including analysis of strategy, tactics, and the political conditions of Rome at that time. This book presents Caesar's firsthand accounts of the wars he led, accompanied by modern interpretations and translations by Rex Warner. As one of the most important primary sour…
Defeat Into Victory is a monumental military memoir by Field Marshal Sir William Slim, the British Army's commander-in-chief in the Burma Campaign during World War II. It details the Allied forces' struggle against the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942, their bitter initial defeats, their restructuring, and their resounding victory in 1945. Slim details the strategy, tactics, logistics, extrem…
The Rising Sun explores the dramatic rise of Japan as a military power in the years leading up to World War II and its early wartime expansion across Asia and the Pacific. Written by Arthur Zich with the editors of Time-Life Books, the volume examines Japan’s political transformation, its imperial ambitions, and the strategic decisions that shaped its wartime conduct. The book also traces the…
This book is about a basic different in outlook between the Peta-Army and the TNI. The Peta-Army's spirit was a "translation" of the japanese bushindo into Indonesia lore. The Japanese instructors sincerely gave their Indonesia pupils all the warrior's values which they them-selves have received at their military schools.
Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knows the harsh street life. He overcame a barely unusual start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history—Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm—but history hitherto known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happ…
Colin Powell adalah perwujudan impian Amerika. Ia dilahirkan di Harlem oleh orang tua imigran dari Jamaika. Dia tahu kehidupan jalanan yang keras. Dia mengatasi awal yang nyaris tidak biasa di sekolah. Kemudian dia bergabung dengan Angkatan Darat. Sisanya adalah sejarah Vietnam, Pentagon, Panama, Badai Gurun, tetapi sejarah yang sampai sekarang hanya diketahui di permukaan. Di sini, untuk perta…
Satu tanda mata dari abad ke-20 yang paling dahsyat dan tak terlukiskan kengeriannya adalah perang dunia II. Adegan-adegan seperti di neraka Dante seorah turun ke bumi. Betapa Amerika dipaksa Hitler untuk mengerahkan pemuda-pemuda terbaiknya sampai jutaan orang, bertarung melawan pemuda-pemuda terbaik Jerman. Dengan jumlah korban di kedua belah pihak yang begitu menakutkan. Buku ini mencakup pu…
This book exemplifies biography in its fullest sense. Sir John Monash was one of Australia's greatest men and probably the greatest of its soldiers, but this book is much more than a military study. Monash was a graduate of the University of Melbourne in three Faculties - Arts, Law and Engineering; he was a man of wide-ranging intellect, especially devoted to literature, music, theatre, languag…
The history of the Middle East since World War I is a recapitulation of blunders blunders which caused and prolonged the turmoil and bloodshed of the past 60 years, blunders by the great powers, by the Arabs and the Jews. The Sinai Blunder deals with the events that led to a disastrous Arab defeat in 1967, left Israel in occupation of Arab lands, and started yet another cycle of violence and ar…