Grand Illusions
Makers of Modern Strategy: from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
edited by Peter Paret, with the collaboration of Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert
July 17, 1986 issue
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Grand Illusions
Makers of Modern Strategy: from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
edited by Peter Paret, with the collaboration of Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert
July 17, 1986 issue
The Awful Fate of Frederick the Great
The Military Life of Frederick the Great
by Christopher Duffy
February 13, 1986 issue
Storm in a Teacup
From Agadir to Armageddon: Anatomy of a Crisis
by Geoffrey Barraclough
The Conquest of Morocco
by Douglas Porch
August 18, 1983 issue
Command Performances
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since AD 1000
by William H. McNeill
January 20, 1983 issue
Pecking Orders
Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942
by H.P. Willmott
From Conquest to Collapse: European Empires from 1815 to 1960
by V.G. Kiernan
The Pattern of Imperialism: The United States, Great Britain, and the Late-Industrializing World Since 1815
by Tony Smith
War and Change in World Politics
by Robert Gilpin
September 23, 1982 issue
Empire Building
Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empires from the Fifteenth Century to the 1780s
by Angus Calder
December 17, 1981 issue
The Brave
Self-Portrait of a Hero: The Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu, 1963-1976
with notes and an afterword by Benjamin Netanyahu and Iddo Netanyahu
April 16, 1981 issue
Follow the Fleet
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1805
by Alfred Thayer Mahan, abridged and edited, with an introduction and Anthony Preston
February 5, 1981 issue
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