Max Boot
Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient worldâ€”when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeat than massive conventional armiesâ€”Max Boot, best-selling author and military advisor in Iraq and Afghanistan, masterfully guides us from the Jewish rebellion against the Roman Empire up through the horrors of the French-Indochina War and the shadowy, post-9/11 battlefields of today. Relying on a diverse cast of unforgettable charactersâ€”not only Mao and Che but also the legendary Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi, the archaeologist-turnedâ€“military commander T. E. Lawrence, and the â€œQuiet Americanâ€ Edward Lansdale, among othersâ€”Boot explodes everything we thought we knew about unconventional combat. The result is both an enthralling read and our most important work on nontraditional warfare.
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