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This classic book on strategy by one of the foremost military thinkers of the twentieth century, STRATEGY: The Indirect Approach draws on all of military history, from the GreekPersian war of the fifth century B.C. to the development of guerrilla warfare in the nuclear age. Liddell Hart provides a perceptive and fascinating examination of wars and their architects. He shows how Hitler almost won, and ultimately lost, World War II, and defines practical principles “ Adjust your ends to your means,” “Take a line of operation which offers alternate objectives” that are as fundamental in worlds of politics and business as they are in warfare.\n\nThis extraordinary work should be essential reading for anyone fascinated by military history and strategy.
Sir Basil Liddell Hart was a military strategist and writer of great acclaim, and one of the world's outstanding teacher-historians. Born in Paris in 1895, he was educated at Cambridge before serving on the Western Front with the Yorkshire Light Infantry after which he was military correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and The Times. He evolved several military tactical developments including the Battle Drill system and was an early advocate of airpower and armoured forces. He lectured on strategy and tactics at staff colleges in numerous countries. His many books include biographies of several great commanders, and The Other Side of the Hill - his interviews with the Second World War's highest-ranking German generals. He was knighted in 1966 and died in 197.
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