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Niccol Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory. Praised by the finest military minds in history and said to have influenced no lesser lights than Frederick the Great and Napoleon, the Art of War is essential... Read Full Overview

Niccolò Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory. Praised by the finest military minds in history and said to have influenced no lesser lights than Frederick the Great and Napoleon, the Art of War is essential reading for... Read Full Overview

The classic Renaissance study of military combat.

Florentine statesman, writer, and political theorist, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) considered The Art of War his most important work. Five centuries later, after serving as a guide to Frederick the Great, Napoleon, and countless other military leaders, it remains an authoritative... Read Full Overview

Escrito por volta de 1520, este ? mais um dos importantes tratados do renascentista italiano Maquiavel, resultado de sua viv?ncia como diplomata, fato que possibilitou sua conviv?ncia com alguns dos protagonistas da pol?tica de sua ?poca. As m?ximas e os conselhos reunidos... Read Full Overview

"Machiavelli taught Europe the art of war; it had long been practiced, without being known." Voltaire

The Art of War, one of the few major works of Machiavelli published in his lifetime, is an interesting discussion of how armies should be armed and organized.

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Niccolo Machiavelli considered this book his greatest achievement. Here you will learn how to recruit, train, motivate, and discipline an army. You will learn the difference between strategy and tactics. Machiavelli does a masterful job of breaking down and analyzing historic... Read Full Overview

In medieval warfare, organization, staff services, hierarchy of command, and codes of military law were nonexistent. Machiavelli changed all that. For him, discipline was of supreme importance. War is war, he believed, a no-holds-barred contest, and victory the supreme aim to... Read Full Overview

A fundamental work by one of the greatest political and military theorists of Western civilization.

Niccolo Machiavelli considered this book his greatest achievement. Here you will learn how to recruit, train, motivate, and discipline an army. You will learn the difference between strategy and tactics. Machiavelli does a masterful job of breaking down and... Read Full Overview

Niccolo Machiavelli considered this book his greatest achievement. Here you will learn how to recruit, train, motivate, and discipline an army. You will learn the difference between strategy and tactics. Machiavelli does a masterful job of breaking down and... Read Full Overview

Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer of some repute, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli, his wife. Both parents were members of the old Florentine nobility. His life falls naturally into three periods,... Read Full Overview

The Art of War By Niccol Machiavelli

Perhaps the most important book ever written about warfare. It can be used and adapted in every facet of your life. This book explains when and how to go to war as well as when not to. The wisdom of the ages is distilled here and no one has ever written a book about war that... Read Full Overview

Perhaps the most important book ever written about warfare. It can be used and adapted in every facet of your life. This book explains when and how to go to war as well as when not to. The wisdom of the ages is distilled here and no one has ever written a book about war that... Read Full Overview

The format of 'The Art of War' was in socratic dialogue. The purpose, declared by Fabrizio (Machiavelli's persona) at the outset, "To honor and reward virt , not to have contempt for poverty, to esteem the modes and orders of military discipline, to constrain citizens to love... Read Full Overview

"Dell'arte della guerra" + "Machiavelli e la sua dottrina politica" (Pasquale Stanislao Mancini) Il trattato di teoria militare l' "Arte della guerra", in sette libri, fu scritto da Machiavelli tra il 1519 e il 1520, in forma di dialogo. Si immagina che il grande condottiero... Read Full Overview