"My men love martyrdom more than your men love life" - Khalid Bin Waleed
Khalid bin Al-Waleed was one of the greatest generals in history, and one of the greatest heroes of Islam. Besides him, Genghis Khan was the only other general to remain undefeated in his entire military life. A measure of Khalid's genius is that he was the only person to inflict a (temporary) defeat on the Prophet Muhammad, (may Allah bless him and grant him peace).
The original title of the book, "The Sword of Allah: Khalid bin Al-Waleed, His Life and Campaigns" was written by the late Lieutenant-General A.I. Akram of the Pakistan Army, in October 1969. The author learnt Arabic in order to draw on the earliest historical sources and he visited every one of Khalid's battlefields in order to draw analyses from the viewpoint of military strategy, including reconciling conflicting historians' accounts. The book was originally published by the Army Education Press, Rawalpindi, Pakistan and printed by Feroze Sons Publishers in Lahore, Pakistan. The excellence of the book was such that it has been translated from English into Arabic and is currently sold in bookshops throughout the Arab World.
Since the material is taken from a book, for maximum benefit, the reader is advised to read the book from the beginning to the end.
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In my spare time, I like to read and analyse Ghazwah Rasul SAW and important Islamic military conflict ..... currently I am reading about the Battle of Yarmuk from Osprey .. it is a good read ... it talks about the strategy, the arms used by both sides dan the time and place ....
can review it in goodreads ;Yarmuk AD 636: The Muslim conquest of Syria by David Nicolle
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