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Robert B. Asprey
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War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History (2 Volume Set) |
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No copies available |
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Hardcover |
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1975 |
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B0014LTX66 |
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Doubleday, Garden City, New York |
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Product Description
A monumental text on the history of war that was published in two volumes in 1975. This unabridged version of Asprey's monumental survey of guerrilla warfare begins with the struggle between Persian king Darius and Scythian irregulars thru the military strategies of the Viet Nam war. He discusses how great commanders such as Hannibal and Napoleon dealt with irregulars and how counterinsurgency experts such as Sir Gerald Templar during the Malayan Emergency in the early 1950s found ways to defeat the guerrilla. The text analyzes the United States's involvement in Vietnam and our failure to adapt organizationally or tactically to the guerrilla challenge of the Viet Cong. Asprey has angry remarks about our "criminal military-political strategy" in Southeast Asia. This is the definitive history of guerrilla warfare over the past two millenia, illustrating its evolution into "an ideal instrument for the realization of social-political-economic aspirations of underprivileged peoples." First Book Club Edition.
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http://bookmooch.com/B0014LTX66 |
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