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Theoretical essays

  • 三十六计 [Thirty-Six Stratagems], ~1400, Chinese. Ʃ9: Strategy.
  • Sūn Zǐ, L’arte della guerra [孙子兵法], V sec. a.C.
  • Vegezio, L’arte della guerra [Epitoma rei militaris], IV-V sec.
  • Maurizio, Strategikon, VI sec.
  • N. Machiavelli, Dell’arte della guerra, 1521
  • Carl von Clausewitz, Vom Kriege [On War], ~1830, German.
  • A. de Jomini, Sommario dell’arte della guerra [Précis de l’art de la guerre], 1838
  • Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660–1783, 1890, English.
  • G. Douhet, Il comando dell’aria [The Command of the Air], 1921, English.
  • H. Guderian, Achtung – Panzer! [deu], 1937
  • Z. Mao, 论游击战 [cmn], 1937
  • Z. Mao, Sulla guerra di lunga durata [论持久战 ], 1938
  • B. Liddell Hart, Thoughts on war [eng], 1944
  • B. Brodie, The Absolute Weapon [eng], 1946
  • B. Brodie, Strategy in the Missile Age [eng], 1959
  • B. Brodie, Strategy and National Interests [eng], 1971
  • E. Guevara, La guerra di guerriglia [La guerra de guerrillas], 1960
  • T. Schelling, La strategia del conflitto [The Strategy of Conflict], 1960
  • V. D. Sokolovskij, Военная стратегия [rus], 1962
  • S. Kent, Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy [eng], 1965
  • E. Luttwak, Strategia [Strategy], 1987
  • L. Qiao, X. Wang, Guerra senza limiti [超限战], 1999
  • C. Gray, Modern Strategy [eng], 1999

Thematic essays

  • J. M. Collins, Military Geography [eng], 1998
  • J. A. Olsen, A History of Air Warfare [eng], 2010
  • J. M. Collins, Special Operations Forces [eng], 1994
  • Rapetto, Di Nunzio, L’atlante delle spie. Dall’antichità al “Grande Gioco” a oggi, 2002
  • A. De Pascale, Guerra & droga, 2017

Historical essays

  • Martin Gilbert, Second World War, 1989, English. Ʃ5: Second World War.
  • Martin Gilbert, First World War, 1994, English. Ʃ5: First World War.
  • B. Liddell Hart, Scipione Africano [Scipio Africanus], 1926
  • A. Barbero, Caporetto, 2017
  • Santo Peli, Storia della Resistenza in Italia, 2006, Italian. Ʃ4: Italian resistance movement during World War II.
  • Cajus Bekker, Angriffshöhe 4000. Ein Kriegstagebuch der deutschen Luftwaffe [The Luftwaffe war diaries], 1964, German.

Memoirs

  • Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico [Commentaries on the Gallic War], ~50 BC, Latin. ȜƐ: Gallic Wars.
  • Xenophon, Ἀνάβασις [Anabasis], ~370 BC, Ancient Greek. Ȝ9: Expedition of the Ten Thousand.
  • Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili [Commentaries on the Civil War], 46 BC, Latin. Ȝ8: Caesar’s civil war.
  • Xenophon, Ἑλληνικά [Hellenica], ~360 BC, Ancient Greek. Ȝ7: Peloponnesian War, Spartan Hegemony and Theban Hegemony.
  • Ulrich Mohr, Atlantis [Atlantis. The story of the German surface raider], 1955, German. Ʃ5: Second World War commerce raider.
  • Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China, 1937, English. Ʃ4: Journalistic report of Chinese communist guerrilla.
  • De Bello Alexandrino [On the Alexandrian War], ~40 BC, Latin.
  • De Bello Africo [On the War in Africa], ~40 BC, Latin.
  • De Bello Hispaniensi [On the Hispanic War], ~40 BC, Latin.
  • H. Guderian, Memorie di un soldato [Erinnerungen eines Soldaten], 1950
  • K. Douglas, Alamein to Zem Zem [eng], 1944
  • N. Lewis, Napoli ’44 [Naples ’44], 1978
  • C. Kyle et al., American Sniper [American Sniper], 2012

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