Favorite Miltary History Reads

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RE: Favorite Miltary History Reads

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right now I am just starting Turtledove's The Man with the Iron Heart, about a SS lead resistance after the Fall of the Reich.

Do me a favor and let me know how it was after you're done, if you don't mind. I've considered picking that one up a few times after really enjoying his Settling Accounts series.
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RE: Favorite Miltary History Reads

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the greatest tactician goes to Alexander the Great, in my book. Besides being a capable strategist, conducting sieges and campaigns against presumably more powerful enemies, he personally led his troops into combat against superior numbers, adjusting his plans on the fly. He's the epitome of someone making their own luck.
And any military man worth his salt studies prior campaigns and battles. The most important reason is to try and avoid being caught in the same traps that the losers fell into. The second is to repeat the victories won. Can nae is one of the classic examples of double envelopment. But notice that this was in effect the standard strategy of the Zulu at their peak, and they had not heard of Hannibal or his campaigns when they did it. Some tactics and strategies are simply so good that people will keep re-inventing them.
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Anyone know of any good books on the 'Battle of Trafalgar' and British Naval battles, ships and tatctics from this era in general?
 
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just finished the fiction novel Siege, about a group of Landsers in Northern Russia, first in Kholm and then Luki. Good read.
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When it comes to historical fiction regarding ancient Hellenic culture & warfare, I find there's none better than Steven Pressfield. Virtually all his novels are excellent reads, with Tides of War (covering the Peloponnesian War) and Gates of Fire (covering the Battle of Thermopylae) being especially superb.
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