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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 900
EAN: 9780393323160
ISBN: 0393323161
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2002-06
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Product Description:
A narrative account of decisive engagements that succeeded by brilliant strategy more than by direct force. The book looks at Roman legionaries; Mongol horsemen; Napoleonic soldiers; 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 the weapons, the soldiers of all those eras followed a commander who faced the same obstacles and demonstrated the straegic and tactical genius essential for victory.
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I have been reading the Great Generals series and added this book along with them and enjoyed it a lot. I have even used statements from the book in my office environment to encourage my fellow workers and also used it in a program that we have in the office.
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It is a lively and interesting book, however, it is almost impossible to agree with the author on the conclusions - he is way too lightweight in my view.
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This is the first book I read on war strategies. It is really a fascinating read, and in a way reads like a thriller. The battlefield is like a chess game, with opponents trying to outsmart and deceive each other. The book offers the reader a fascinating journey through the minds of some of the most famous generals in history. Readers will be introduced to the strategies of Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, Genghis Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, William Tecumesh Sherman, T. E. ... Read More
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Why do some generals do better than others? Bevin Alexander takes some of the great generals out of history and examines why they did so well. The author tries to point out the common traits and tactics each general shared. The selection of generals is interesting - Jackson and Sherman are picked over Lee and Grant.
But Mr. Alexander is also willing to point out some of the bad choices that these good generals sometimes made. Napoleon, for example, did great in Italy but in latter battles ... Read More
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Alexander has written a nice overview of some of military history's best generals. His overall thesis was certainly proven well, and he chose those generals who best proved his point. I particularly liked the chapters on Hannibal/Scipio, Genghis Khan, Sherman, and Rommel. This work could have been a five star book; however, his chapter on MacArthur was where the book lost me. Militarily speaking Alexander continued as he had throughout the book, but his political overview of the Communist threat was ... Read More
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