Invisible armies an epic history of guerrilla warfare from ancient times to the present
Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world-when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeat than massive conventional armies-Max Boot, best-selling author and military advisor in Iraq and Afghanistan, masterfully guides us from the Jewish rebellion against...
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Liveright Pub. Corporation
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Barbarians at the gate : the origins of guerrilla warfare -- Liberty or death : the rise of liberal revolutionaries -- The spreading oil spot : the wars of empire -- The bomb throwers : the first age of international terrorism -- The sideshows : guerrillas and commandos in the world wars -- The end of empire : the wars of "national liberation" -- Radical chic : the romance of the leftist revolutionaries -- God's killers : the rise of radical Islam | |
| 520 | |a Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world-when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeat than massive conventional armies-Max Boot, best-selling author and military advisor in Iraq and Afghanistan, masterfully guides us from the Jewish rebellion against the Roman Empire up through the horrors of the French-Indochina War and the shadowy, post-9/11 battlefields of today. Relying on a diverse cast of unforgettable characters-not only Mao and Che but also the legendary Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi, the archaeologist-turned-military commander T. E. Lawrence, and the "Quiet American" Edward Lansdale, among others-Boot explodes everything we thought we knew about unconventional combat. The result is both an enthralling read and our most important work on nontraditional warfare. 70 illustrations; 8 maps | ||
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