Strategy Six Pack: Vol 8

A history of Scotland by one of the best-known newspapermen and writers of his day, a quasi-scientific analysis of a single battle from Edward Creasy, a bloody boots-on-the-ground Civil War memoir by a remarkably articulate Confederate cannoneer, an insightful Elbert Hubbard sketch of King Alfred, a history of the Ancient Greeks and a rare biography of Captain James Cook. Strategy Six Pack 8 is a historian’s haversack of tactical texts spanning two millennia of conflict:

A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang.

The Battle of Blenheim, 1704 by Edward Shepherd Creasy.

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson by Edward A. Moore.

King Alfred by Elbert Hubbard.

The Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber.

The Life of Captain James Cook, the Circumnavigator by Arthur Kitson.

“Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.”

- Max Euwe.

Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812-1878) was an English historian and jurist. His best known contribution to literature is his Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World (1851).

Hélène Adeline Guerber (1859-1929), better known as H. A. Guerber, was a British historian most well known for her written histories of Germanic mythology.

Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 - May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great. He died aboard the Lusitania, when it was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.

Arthur Kitson (1860-1937) is the author of The Life of Captain James Cook, the Circumnavigator published in 1907.

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.

Private Edward Alexander Moore "Ned" (1842 - 1916) was a Confederate cannoneer from Virginia. In the Antietam Campaign he manned a piece at Sharpsburg and was seriously wounded in the thigh by counter-battery fire there on 17 September.