How Great Generals Win

By: Bevin Alexander

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Paperback | 1 June 2002 | Edition Number 1

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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?he 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. Maps, illustrations.

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Essential reading for students of military strategy and tactics.-- "Publishers Weekly"

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Non-Fiction Warfare & Defence Military & Defence Strategy Military Tactics Theory of Warfare & Military Science History General & World History Biographies & True Stories Biographies Historical, Political and Military Biographies

Maps	p. 13
Photographs	p. 15
Introduction: The Rules of War Are Simple but Seldom Followed	p. 19
The General Who Beat Hannibal	p. 37
Mongol Secrets: Velocity and Deception	p. 67
Napoleon and Wars of Annihilation	p. 95
Stonewall Jackson: "Mystify, Mislead, and Surprise"	p. 123
Sherman: The General Who Won the Civil War	p. 143
Palestine 1918: Breaking the Deadlock of Trench Warfare	p. 168
Mao Zedong: The Winning of China	p. 187
France 1940: Victory by Surprise	p. 209
The Desert Fox Rommel and Germany's Lost Chance	p. 236
MacArthur: A Jekyll and Hyde in Korea	p. 276
The Enduring Unity of War	p. 299
Selected Bibliography	p. 307
Index	p. 311
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