War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History

ISBN-10: 0385034709
ISBN-13: 9780385034708
Series: War in the Shadows
Pages: 1622
Language: English
Published: 1975
Publisher: Doubleday
Author: Robert B. Asprey

Description

Most of the material covers the World War II underground and the Indochinese wars. Includes material on guerrilla warfare in the American Revolution, Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, Peninsular War, Philippines war, Boer war, Mexican revolution (Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata), Lettow-Vorbeck in East Africa (World War I), Lawrence of Arabia, Irish Republican Army, Mao Tse-tung, OSS, Ho Chi Minh, Vo Nguyen Giap, William Slim, Orde Wingate, Domino theory, Viet Minh, Greek Civil War, Mau Mau, Jomo Kenyatta, Palestine, Cyprus, Algeria, Fidel Castro, Viet Cong, Tet Offensive, and many other conflicts.