Help finding a specific book on military history?

Question

Ok, this is a long shot, but still. My little brother was reading a book on military history on the internet, and had it bookmarked. Unfortunatly the bookmark was deleted, and we haven't been able to retrace our steps to the page.

All he remembers are that the book was in three parts, titled:
Ancient Warfare/Battles (he's not sure which)
Medieval Warfare/Battles
Modern Warfare/Battles

It had an introduction called "The Military Thinker".

It included a story about when the patrol groups from two opposing armies stumbled across each other, realised they were equally matched and so if anyone fired their guns they would mostly all be killed, so they threw stones at each other instead.

It told of how the "greatest military mind" in the world was killed by a lucky shot from a Prussian Gunner.

It's almost certainly an "old" book, as it was on gutenberg.org, which hosts classics and books with expired copyrights, so over 50/100 years old (not sure which).

ANY help would be great :)

Answer 1

If it was before 1923 then it's more likely to be in the public domain and thus Project Gutenberg is more likely to host it as they only host works in the public domain. Since you say that it was on there, then it's probably before 1923.

I've never heard of this book as far as I'm aware, but since you mentioned it was on Project Gutenberg I've tried checking their war bookshelf. The only categories it covers are the Boer War, the American Civil War, the Spanish American War, and WWI . Ten books under the Spanish American War, twenty-three under the Boer War, and both the Civil War and WWI sections look to have over a hundred books each. Basically too many books to try going through them all.

Edit: Try "Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle." I've been looking through various military writers trying to see if I could find this and came up with a Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq of France, who died while leading his troops in battle during the Franco-Prussian War. The link to his "Battle Studies" took me to a special section on Project Gutenberg, which is posted below along with a direct link to the plain text version (which you can also get in the first link).

Answer 2

You might be able to find what you are looking for by asking the librarian this question at the Library of Congress' website at: www.loc.gov or ask the librarian what other places you can go to find these books. Since the Library has over 20 million books, they can probably help you. Another source may be alibris.com or bibliotec.com. Happy researching.

Answer 3

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