How great generals win: a military historian appraises the world's greatest commanders, from Hannibal to MacArthur

How great generals win: a military historian appraises the world's greatest commanders, from Hannibal to MacArthur

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Alexander
Bevin
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"An astute military historian's appraisal of what separates the sheep from the wolves in the great game of war."—Kirkus ReviewsIf 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 inThe Art of War...
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Alexander
Bevin
Язык
Английский
ISBN
9780393323160
Дата выхода
1993

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How great generals win: a military historian appraises the world's greatest commanders, from Hannibal to MacArthur

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