Strategy as Exemplified in the Second World War

These lectures from 1946 introduce the principles of military strategy and apply them to land operations during the Second World War.

This book comprises the Lees Knowles Lectures for 1946, originally delivered by A. H. Burne at the University of Cambridge. Burne introduces the principles of military strategy and then applies those principles to land operations in such places as Poland, Dunkirk, Russia, Africa and Italy during the Second World War.This book comprises the Lees Knowles Lectures for 1946, originally delivered by A. H. Burne at the University of Cambridge. Burne begins by introducing the principles of military strategy, and then applies those principles to examples of land operations in Poland, Dunkirk and Russia, Africa and Italy, and Japan and north-west Europe during the Second World War.