| How Great Generals Win Contributor(s): Alexander, Bevin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393323161 ISBN-13: 9780393323160 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $22.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2002 Annotation: Here is a narrative account of decisive engagements that succeeded by brilliant strategy more than by direct force. The reader accompanies those who fought, from Roman legionaries and Mongol horsemen to Napoleonic soldiery, and Douglas MacArthur's Inchon invaders. Maps. Illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Strategy - Biography & Autobiography | Military - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 355.009 |
| LCCN: 92040518 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.46" W x 8.42" (0.81 lbs) 322 pages |
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| Publisher Description: If a key to military victory is to get there first with the most, the true test of the great general is to decide where there is--the enemy's Achilles heel. Here is a narrative account of decisive engagements that succeeded by brilliant strategy more than by direct force. The reader accompanies those who fought, from Roman legionaries and Mongol horsemen to Napoleonic soldiery, American Civil War Rebels and Yankees, World War I Tommies, Lawrence of Arabia's bedouins, Chinese revolutionaries, British Desert Rats, Rommel's Afrika Korps, and Douglas MacArthur's Inchon invaders. However varied their weapons, the soldiers of all these eras followed a commander who faced the same obstacles and demonstrated the strategic and tactical genius essential for victory. All warfare is based on deception, wrote Sun Tzu in The Art of War in 400 BCE. Bevin Alexander shows how great generals have interpreted this advice, and why it still holds true today. |
Contributor Bio(s): Alexander, Bevin: - Bevin Alexander is the author of How Great Generals Win, Lost Victories, and Inside the Nazi War Machine. He lives in Bremo Bluff, Virginia. |