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- From: HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.)
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- Subject: Re: Fuller's "Military History of the Western World"
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:10:42 GMT
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- From "MILLER, JIMMY A." <HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu>
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- In <C1F6zC.KtI@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> lioness@maple.circa.ufl.edu writes:
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- > From lioness@maple.circa.ufl.edu
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- > Has anyone got J. Fuller's "A Military History of the Western World
- > Vols. 1-3"? It looks like it covers everything from the Spanish
- > Armada through WWII.
- >
- > How accurate/good are the books' analyses? Are there any better books
- > out there that cover advanced strategy and tactics?
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- Fuller is highly regarded as a military historian, and also, I believe, as
- a strategist. I'd say the books you refer to are useful, but to be honest
- I found them to be *extremely* dry reading. I cannot really comment as to
- their accuracy, but I found no glaring errors (but then, I wouldn't know
- enough to spot most of them).
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- Another book I feel worthwile is _Strategy_ by Lidell-Hart. There's a bit
- of self-promotion in his commentary, but it is a very good read.
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- semper fi,
-
- Jammer Jim Miller
- Texas A&M University '89 and '91
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