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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New York
Liveright Pub. Corporation
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- 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