Tactics Book Reviews Samples For Students

- Analysis of the Author The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War is a historical fiction piece of writing by Michael Shaara, an American Born Italian immigrant, who has received Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this book in 1975. The book is based upon the battle of Gettysburg of American Civil War in 1863. It describes the events that took place during the war from the perspectives of troop leaders of both Confederacy and Union; how they have made their planning, took decisions and then implemented them during the war. Michael was able to understand all those ...

Book Review: American Political System

Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson is a well respected and award winning professor of political communication. She is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She has written and co-authored fifteen books about political discourse. The titles of her two most recent books give a good idea of the theme she writes about The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Messages shaped the 2008 Elections (2010) and unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (2007). Dr. Jamieson has spent her career evaluating election campaigns for the accuracy of their campaign statements. Her work ...

The Defense of Hill 781 is a book written by James R. McDonough. This book talks about A. Tack, a deceased Army officer who was denied an entry to Valhalla until he learns and completes the lessons required before being transferred to the final goal in the sky. Always Tack was assigned to a purgatory base in Nevada desert where he had to learn the hard way through victory and defeat and life or death as long as he learns the vital lessons needed. Through attending the American National Training Center, Always Tack learned how to lead a mechanized infantry battalion (McDonough 65). ...

Summary of the Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Art of War highlights several ideal points which could easily be used in the process of risk management and military capabilities. It is one of the finest books written on military treatise that has been translated from the Chinese languages into various other languages globally. This book by Sun Tzu remained anonymous to England till the 1872 and entered the scene when a French priest with the name of Joseph Amiot, who was residing in China, translated it.

However, the translation was poorly produced. Nevertheless, in 1908, Capt. Callthrop re-wrote it. He came up with a better piece of this ...

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This is a comprehensive analysis that compares insurgencies and terrorists movements of post Second World War II and in our times. O’Neill begins this book by looking at post world war II insurgencies that have emerged which are related to terrorism and guerilla wars. He analyzes the nature of insurgency, tactics used in these guerilla wars both military and political “these so called small wars, which can be found on all continents, are often very costly and frequently involve major interest of regional and global powers,”¹, and makes us understand both physical and human environment of ...

David Ogilvy is often referred to as one of the most remarkable individuals to ever grace the field of advertising. Hayden (2013) writes that "in his years as an advertising executive and copywriter, Ogilvy created some of the world's most successful and iconic marketing campaigns and was sought after for his information rich, soft sell ads" (p.1). His book, On Advertising, is a confessional of sorts, where Ogilvy provides the reader, more specifically those within the field of advertising and marketing, with a considerable amount of insight into navigating the creative world. Ogilvy’s point is to offer readers ...

THE GREAT INFLUENZA

The book the great influenza by john Barry takes us back to arguably one of the greatest medical disasters in human history, the book focuses on the influenza pandemic which took place in the year 1918. The world was at war in the First World War and with everyone preoccupied with happenings in Europe and winning the war the influenza pandemic displayed more of its opportunistic tendencies and struck when the human race was least ready and most distracted by happenings all over the world. In total the influenza pandemic killed over a hundred million people on a global scale, clearly ...

In all his work Steven Pressfield has depicted his mastery in storytelling and his mysterious ability to bring out his story in a technique that is guides one into the theme of that story. Based on his writing, he is at his best when dealing with classical warfare and his historical research is completely built on all his works. Among his work is “The Virtues of War”. (Pressfield, Steven, 9) In this book he brings out a fascinating olden background, opens Alexander and all the Greeks. His major aim is to show out man’s greatest successes in the conquest.
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“The Killer Angels” written by Michael Shaara is a unique book, which describes about the Battle of Gettysburg through imagery and accurate details. While author Shaara is aware that the legendary figures and their personality traits portrayed in the book are his creation, the historical accuracy and vivid research of the story let the readers believe the battle a fact rather fiction. Shaara covers the key events and decisions of the battle in great detail. He does not feel shy about mentioning slavery as the root cause of the war. In the book “The Killer Angels,” Shaara characterizes the commander of ...

George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware is one of the most iconic images in American history; as such, there has been quite a bit of historiography on the subject itself. This latest entry into the scholarship of the Battle of Trenton, George Washington’s Surprise Attack: A New Look at the Battle that Decided the Fate of America, is a wonderful entry that taught me a lot about this fascinating battle in American history.
At first, I was somewhat daunted by the books 600+ page length – how detailed could a recounting of a single battle of the Revolutionary War be? – but as ...

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In the past, the place of women in the society was only recognized as that next to the man. Her roles and responsibilities clearly defined as that of being a home-maker, the support for her husband, a mother to her children, nothing more, nothing less. Girls that eventually became women grew up with these facts as they were taught and instilled in them from a tender age hence did not expect any more from life. However, there are those that challenged these societal expectations. Questioned these roles and responsibilities that they were expected to live by. These individuals went against the grain ...

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Henderson, Timothy J. A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States. 2008.
The text finds its basis in the Mexican-American War of 1846. While Henderson attempts to explain the war from the views of Mexico, he gives his views regarding the United States as well. Written over a period of one year, “A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States” is derived from a series of secondary resources from which the author draws information. Henderson combines said information in a meticulous way leaving no ...

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This book is a continuation of another fine work by Edward drea on the pacific war; a very mature judgment coming from an experienced scholar. Using the main text of the book, he utilizes a new generation of some Japanese publications, which are not biased products of a retired officer. The text is not about Japanese history in battles and wars; rather it is about the IJA (imperial Japanese army) in the perspective of an institution. It analyses groups, for instance the officer corps, the army demographics (conscripts), examines the budget, and considers operational and strategic tools. Although it is narrative in structure, ...

The book is an exhaustive illustration of the above thesis subject since it exploits Khan’s military skills. The text equally elucidates the lustrous western perception of the Mongolis as savages because they brought civilization to its knees. The Mongals dealt ruthlessly with the ruling classes whilst they were overly friendly and liberal with the common masses that comprised of the peasants, tradesmen and extra. They levied little taxes to them; they treated with much tolerance and accommodation of divergent aspects of the locals’ culture and religion. Khan is also showcased as a ruthless barbaric blood thirsty individual that leads a ...

Approximately 100 years after Union troops settled the issue of slavery, a second Civil War played out in America’s courts and on the streets of the America South. In Mississippi, as in Alabama, Georgia and other states where the Civil Rights movement played out, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown vs. the Board of Education and the ensuing battle over school integration inflamed white folks, who adopted every available tactic to maintain the doctrine of “separate but equal.” Black folks responded with incredible courage, implementing strategies that would eventually turn the tide in the battle for civil ...