Strategy Six Pack 5

by Jacob Abbott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Basil Wilson Duke

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War." Strategy Six Pack 5 presents a smart sextet of tactical texts:

"A Treatise on Tactics" by Francis J. Lippitt

"A Tale of the English Civil War" by G. A. Henty

"Genghis Khan" by Jacob Abbott

"The Boer War" by Arthur Conan Doyle

"Morgan's Raid" by Basil W. Duke, Orlando B. Willcox & Thomas H. Hines

"Garibaldi" by Elbert Hubbard

Francis J. Lippitt's A Treatise on Tactics is a detailed, sophisticated mid-Victorian survey delineating trends in military thinking as relates to the three branches of Infantry, Artillery and Cavalry. Morgan's Raid by Basil W. Duke, Orlando B. Willcox & Thomas H. Hines - three participants of the famous Civil War skirmish - is a forgotten military classic and includes the raid, capture and escape of Confederate general John Hunt Morgan and his troops, known as Morgan's Men. Evidently Sherlock Holmes' creator Arthur Conan Doyle had a lot to say about the Boer War. By the end of hostilities in 1902, his book The Boer War (originally published as "The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct") had been published 16 times, with each edition revised by Doyle. The mystery maestro brings the same analytical skills displayed in his fiction to this definitive look at the 1899-1902 conflict.

There is also G. A. Henty's richly descriptive novel A Tale of the English Civil War, Garibaldi, a biography of the Italian general, and Genghis Khan by Jacob Abbott, a look at the life of the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.

""A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." - Baltasar Gracian.

Genres: History

570 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1841

About the author

Abbott was born at Hallowell, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820; studied at Andover Theological Seminary in 1821, 1822, and 1824; was tutor in 1824-1825, and from 1825 to 1829 was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Amherst College; was licensed to preach by the Hampshire Association in 1826; founded the Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies in Boston in 1829, and was principal of it in 1829-1833; was pastor of Eliot Congregational Church (which he founded), at Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1834-1835; and was, with his brothers, a founder, and in 1843-1851 a principal of Abbott's Institute, and in 1845-1848 of the Mount Vernon School for Boys, in New York City.

He was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. He died in Farmington, Maine, where he had spent part of his time after 1839, and where his brother, Samuel Phillips Abbott, founded the Abbott School.

His Rollo Books, such as Rollo at Work, Rollo at Play, Rollo in Europe, etc., are the best known of his writings, having as their chief characters a representative boy and his associates. In them Abbott did for one or two generations of young American readers a service not unlike that performed earlier, in England and America, by the authors of Evenings at Home, The History of Sandford and Merton, and the The Parent's Assistant.
Fewacres in 1906, Abbott's residence at Farmington, Maine

His brothers, John S.C. Abbott and Gorham Dummer Abbott, were also authors. His sons, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott, both eminent lawyers, Lyman Abbott, and Edward Abbott, a clergyman, were also well-known authors.