Command Series

32 primary works • 32 total works
Throughout the history of warfare, individual commanders have dominated the battlefield and in so doing decided the fate of nations. From the warlords of the ancient world through to the architects of the blitzkrieg and beyond, the Command series looks at how these great leaders adopted revolutionary technology, battlefield tactics and training met…

Book 1

Napoleon Bonaparte
3.65
· 74 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2012 · 13 editions
Napoleon Bonaparte is renowned as one of the great…
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Book 2

Erich von Manstein
3.92
· 38 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2010 · 6 editions
Erich von Manstein was one of the most successful …
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Book 3

George S. Patton
4.04
· 71 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2010 · 13 editions
George S. Patton Jr. was the iconic American field…
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Book 4

Julius Caesar: Leadership, Strategy, Conflict
3.68
· 47 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2010 · 3 editions
One of the greatest military commanders in history…
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Book 5

Erwin Rommel
3.96
· 117 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 2006 · 12 editions
Nicknamed 'The Desert Fox' for his cunning command…
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Book 6

Toyotomi Hideyoshi
3.77
· 70 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2006 · 10 editions
Arguably the greatest military commander in the hi…
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Book 7

Robert E. Lee
3.48
· 25 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2006 · 14 editions
Robert E. Lee is widely recognized as the greatest…
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Book 8

Henry V: The background, strategies, tactics and battlefield experiences of the greatest commanders of history
Immortalized in the plays of Shakespeare, Henry V …
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Book 9

Bernard Montgomery
3.60
· 25 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2010 · 5 editions
This Osprey Command title looks closely at the ear…
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Book 10

Marlborough
3.67
· 21 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2006 · 13 editions
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, is one of…
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Book 11

Hannibal
4.08
· 53 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2011 · 4 editions
By the end of the First Punic War against Carthage…
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Book 12

Saladin
3.77
· 30 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2011 · 8 editions
This Osprey Command book looks closely at the earl…
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Book 13

Heinz Guderian
4.04
· 54 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2011 · 13 editions
This book gives a focused, military biography of H…
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Book 14

Garibaldi
3.78
· 23 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2011 · 17 editions
This book looks closely at the life, military expe…
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Book 15

Walther Model
4.20
· 35 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2011 · 12 editions
This volume details the military career and accomp…
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Book 16

Horatio Nelson
3.68
· 41 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2011 · 16 editions
The most famous admiral in history, Horatio Nelson…
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Book 17

Bill Slim
4.06
· 34 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2011 · 11 editions
'Bill' Slim was one of the greatest British genera…
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Book 18

Eisenhower
3.71
· 14 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2011 · 11 editions
Dwight Eisenhower represented a fundamentally new …
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Book 19

Lawrence of Arabia
4.12
· 33 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2011 · 12 editions
Thomas Edward Lawrence, more popularly known as La…
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Book 20

Orde Wingate
3.95
· 21 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 9 editions
Reknowned for originating Chindit guerilla warfare…
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Book 21

George Washington
3.55
· 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2011 · 13 editions
George Washington may be one of history's most und…
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Book 22

Georgy Zhukov
3.65
· 40 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2012 · 15 editions
Zhukov was the dominant figure in the Red Army dur…
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Book 23

Pompey
3.38
· 37 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2012 · 8 editions
Pompey, or Pompey the Great, was one of the best m…
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Book 24

Tokugawa Ieyasu
3.59
· 63 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2012 · 8 editions
Towards the end of the 16th century three outstand…
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Book 25

Omar Bradley
3.91
· 23 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2012 · 13 editions
General Omar Bradley was the premier US Army tacti…
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Book 26

Yamamoto Isoroku
4.13
· 54 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2012 · 12 editions
Yamamoto Isoroku is the most well-known of Japan's…
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Book 27

Albert Kesselring
3.91
· 23 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2012 · 12 editions
Although he is mostly remembered for his part in t…
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Book 28

Archibald Wavell
4.00
· 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 12 editions
Archibald Wavell remains one of the great Allied c…
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Book 29

Ulysses S. Grant
3.64
· 14 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2002 · -1 editions
Ulysses Grant was his country's greatest general s…
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Book 30

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
3.86
· 101 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 2013 · 14 editions
Mustafa Kemal was one of the 20th century's greate…
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Book 31

Attila the Hun
3.66
· 41 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2014 · 10 editions
One of the most powerful men in late antiquity, At…
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Book 32

Gustaf Mannerheim
4.35
· 20 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2015 · 11 editions
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim is a legendary figure,…
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