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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 Reviews
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.
Alexander demonstrates the strategic thinking and battlefield techniques of some of the greatest generals in history, including Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Sherman, and von Manstein, and shows how they applied principles of military strategy that have remained constant for 2,000 years.
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Jack Wallace
reviewed How Great Generals Win on January 17, 2017
How Great Generals Win
A very enjoyable read, this book traces military history, tactics and most especially grand tactics from the Ancient age to the middle of the last Century. Starting with Scipio Africanus, and covering Napoleon, Sherman, Guderian and Mao,among others, before ending with MacArthur, Alexander gives us the Great Captains and their finest military moves. The author set the scene with a quick discussion of the day and then gives a quick description of the General and his masterpiece, singular battle or campaign. Here the only glaring fault of this book becomes clear, Alexander gives usually only a map of the sphere of operations, without the detailed maps for each maneuvre that would really explain the feat to the lay reader. It can get confusing easily, especially when the place names are similar sounding, as say in the Korean Campaign of 1950. But over all this is a good book for all levels of military history interest. I hope that a version with a plethora of battlemaps can be developed, as the basic lessons are good and approachable to any reader.
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