Masterminds of Strategy: A 17-Volume Collection
Seventeen Foundational Works on Warfare, Statecraft, Power, and Leadership Across the AgesBy Sun Tzu, Sextus Julius Frontinus, Kautilya, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz, Napoleon Bonaparte, Jacob Abbott, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, William Milligan Sloane, Joseph Moyle Sherer, Woodrow Wilson, John Torrey Morse, Alfred von Reumont, George Hesekiel
Length260h 1m
About this audiobook
Masterminds of Strategy: A 17-Volume Collection surveys the long intellectual history of war, statecraft, command, and political calculation. Ranging from aphoristic military maxims and administrative manuals to philosophical treatises, imperial memoirs, biographies, and historical studies, the set places ancient strategic thought beside modern analyses of national power. Its standout texts include foundational reflections on intelligence, terrain, discipline, deception, logistics, leadership, and the unpredictable forces that shape conflict. Together, the volumes reveal strategy as both a martial art and a mode of political judgment. The contributors span Chinese, South Asian, Roman, Renaissance Italian, Prussian, French, British, German, and American traditions. They include military theorists, rulers, civil servants, historians, biographers, and political thinkers whose writings emerge from imperial administration, revolutionary warfare, nineteenth-century historicism, and modern debates over sovereignty and national purpose. This breadth illuminates the continuities and tensions between classical statecraft, realist political theory, professional military science, and popular historical narrative. This collection is especially valuable for readers seeking a comparative education in strategic thought. It invites sustained engagement with divergent assumptions about power, ethics, command, and historical causation, while allowing each volume to converse with the others. Students of history, politics, military studies, and leadership will find an unusually rich archive of ideas in a single, capacious library.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length260 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Tales of Old Japan (Annotated)
2The Art of War
3SUN TZU ON THE ART OF WAR
4ORIGINAL TEXT
5COMMENTED TEXT (pt. 1)
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6COMMENTED TEXT (pt. 2)
7COMMENTED TEXT (pt. 3)
8Strategemata: The Manual of Military Tactics
9Book I
10Book II
11Book III
12Book IV0
13Arthashastra: The Ancient Indian Book on Wisdom and Strategy
14Book I, "Concerning Discipline"
15Book II, "The Duties of Government Superintendents" (pt. 1)
16Book II, "The Duties of Government Superintendents" (pt. 2)
17Book III, "Concerning Law"
18Book IV, "The Removal of Thorns"
19Book V, "The Conduct of Courtiers"
20Book VI, "The Source of Sovereign States"
21Book VII, "The End of the Six-Fold Policy"
22Book VIII, "Concerning Vices and Calamities"
23Book IX, "The Work of an Invader"
24Book X, "Relating to War"
25Book XI, "The Conduct of Corporations"
26Book XII, "Concerning a Powerful Enemy"
27Book XIII, "Strategic Means to Capture a Fortress"
28Book XIV, "Secret Means"
29Book XV, "The Plan of a Treatise"
30The Prince & The Art of War
31The Prince
32Dedication: To the Magnificent Lorenzo Di Piero De’ Medici
33Chapter 1 - Of the Various Kinds of Princedom, and of the Ways in Which They Are Acquired
34Chapter 2 - Of Hereditary Princedoms
35Chapter 3 - Of Mixed Princedoms
36Chapter 4 - Why the Kingdom of Darius, Conquered by Alexander, Did Not, on Alexander’s Death, Rebel Against His Successors
37Chapter 5 - How Cities or Provinces Which Before Their Acquisition Have Lived Under Their Own Laws Are To Be Governed
38Chapter 6 - Of New Princedoms Which a Prince Acquires With His Own Arms and by Merit
39Chapter 7 - Of New Princedoms Acquired By the Aid of Others and By Good Fortune
40Chapter 8 - Of Those Who By Their Crimes Come to Be Princes
41Chapter - 9 Of the Civil Princedom
42Chapter - 10 How the Strength of All Princedoms Should Be Measured
43Chapter 11 - Of Ecclesiastical Princedoms
44Chapter 12 - How Many Different Kinds of Soldiers There Are, and of Mercenaries
45Chapter 13 - Of Auxiliary, Mixed, and National Arms
46Chapter 14 - Of the Duty of a Prince In Respect of Military Affairs
47Chapter 15 - Of the Qualities In Respect of Which Men, and Most of all Princes, Are Praised or Blamed
48Chapter 16 - Of Liberality and Miserliness
49Chapter 17 - Of Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better To Be Loved or Feared
50Chapter 18 - How Princes Should Keep Faith
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