books: war and decision     books:     War and decision      Executive Warfare: 10 Rules of Engagement for Winning Your War for Success David D'Alessandro McGraw-Hill, 2008 How to win a "combat game for grown-ups" With Michele Owens, David D'Alessandro has written another book whose title and subtitle suggest direct correlations between the battlefield and the business world. What sets this book apart from almost all of the others is the fact that he includes no references to ...             Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008 When the world hung in the balance For those familiar with Kershaw primarily through his definitive two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler, 'Fateful Choices' might seem, at first glance, like a comparatively light-weight book with a 'what-if' gimmick at its core: what if England had sought a negotiated ...             State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III Bob Woodward Simon & Schuster, 2007 Straightforward blow-by-blow of starting the war in Iraq Bob Woodward does a good job of presenting a selection of the day-to-day functions of the Bush Administration in getting the US into Iraq, for good or ill. He doesn't present the reader with heroes or villains, nor does he draw any moral/ethical conclusions about any ...             War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism Douglas J. Feith Harper, 2008 One hopes for more books of this type about the Iraq war. This is an essential fact book for every person curious about the U.S. government's decision making that led to the Afghan and Iraq wars and their pursuit in the early years. Douglas Feith's memoir includes the period in which he served as Under Secretary of Defense ...             Family Wars: Classic Conflicts in Family Business and How to Deal with Them Grant Gordon, Nigel Nicholson Kogan Page, 2008 Advice that will keep families staying together while keeping the business profitable Family businesses should be stress free - if anyone can get along it can be family, right? "Family Wars: Classic Conflicts in Family Business and How to Deal With Them" realizes that even families can have conflicts, and they can do far more damage than a conflict ...             Command Decision (Vatta's War) Elizabeth Moon Del Rey, 2008 The Best of the Series so Far The fourth book in Elizabeth Moon's "Vatta's War" series is an excellent read. This series is, essentially, a single novel broken into five parts so make sure you read them in order. Each book has its own beginning, middle, and end related to the scope of that ...             Decision at Strasbourg: Ike's Strategic Mistake to Halt the Sixth Army Group at the Rhine in 1944 (Ausa) ... David P. Colley Naval Institute Press, 2008 Excellent Presentation Of 6th Army Group From Southern France To The Rhine This book's main theme is that the Seventh Army under Patch was the first to cross the Rhine in November, 1994, and that Eisenhower stopped the full crossing because he didn't like the 6th Army Group commander, Jake Devers. It is extremely well-researched so that the ...             Bush at War Bob Woodward Simon & Schuster, 2003 Matter-of-fact Transcript of First 100 Days This book is not an opinion piece--it's nearly a minute-by-minute matter-of-fact transcript of what transpired in the Bush administration in the first 100 days after 9/11, up to the capture of Kabul. There are no sweeping judgments here, just the facts, in an ...             Failures of the Presidents: From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraq Thomas J. Craughwell, M. William Phelps Fair Winds Press, 2008 A Beautiful Book - Highly Recommended to All Readers "Failures of the Presidents" is an extremely informative, entertaining, and beautifully illustrated book, almost handsome enough to be displayed as a coffee-table book. The work discusses and analyzes twenty incidences of failure by eighteen U.S. presidents, ranging ...             Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw Penguin Press HC, The, 2007 Very well researched. An excellent read. Ian Kershaw's book is an elegantly-written masterful work of history but rather dense at some points and more of an academic nature than an easy read. In "Fateful Choices" Kershaw cast a critical eye over ten decisions taken during a 19-month period at the beginning of ...             EVA and Value-Based Management: A Practical Guide to Implementation S. David Young, Stephen F. O'Byrne McGraw-Hill, 2000 The EVA Guide which holds nothing back! This book, together with 'The Quest for Value'by G. Bennett Stewart, III and 'Valuation' by the Tom Copeland, provide a solid backgound on value-based management. S. David Young and Stephen F. O'Byrne give a fair description of their book: 'This book is not a ...             Decisions for War, 1914-1917 Richard F. Hamilton, Holger H. Herwig Cambridge University Press, 2004 Idiot politicians do what they do best Very good and scholarly work. This book could only have been written when many of the "secret archives" became available after the Berlin wall came down. Many of the German documents were stored in eastern Germany, thus unavailable to modern scholars of the period. ...             Lincoln's Darkest Year: The War in 1862 William Marvel Houghton Mifflin, 2008 Challenging and thought provoking! 1862 is one of the most interesting years in American history and a critical year in the Civil War. In that year, the war changes from a great adventure that will end soon to a bloody war with no end in sight. In that year, the war's objective changes from restoring ...             Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History Craig L. Symonds Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 Readable Researched Enjoyable "Aha" Read This is a thoroughly enjoyable book, well told and well researched. It covers five decisive American naval battles ranging from wooden ships to the Persian Gulf. The battle I knew the most about ahead of time was the Battle of Midway from World War II. Ironically the ...             Hitler Triumphant: Alternate Decisions of World War II Peter Tsouras Greenhill Books, 2006 A top pick for military readers seeking more than fantasy speculation. Peter G. Tsouras edits HITLER TRIUMPHANT: ALTERNATE DECISIONS OF WORLD WAR II provides another alternate history 'what if' collection of scenarios, this using Hitler's decisions and key changing points during the war to provide a more scholarly survey of how different ...          products you might be interested in search for books engagement, implementation, management, presidents, strasbourg, value-based      toavi.com    web we recommend Straightforward blow-by-blow of starting the war in Iraq randomly chosen VHS: Bare Wench!!!