Sun Tzu at Gettysburg : ancient military wisdom in the modern world
Alexander, Bevin2011
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Describes how the tactics and advice offered in the 2,400-year-old Chinese military treatise could have changed the outcome of the battles of Gettysburg, Waterloo, and other modern war campaigns.
Main title:
Sun Tzu at Gettysburg : ancient military wisdom in the modern world / Bevin Alexander.
Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Imprint:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2011.
Collation:
xvi, 286 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Saratoga, 1777: the battle that transformed the world -- The Carolinas, Yorktown, and Independence, 1781 -- Napoleon at Waterloo, 1815 -- The Civil War campaigns of 1862 -- Gettysburg, 1863 -- Battle of the Marne, 1914 -- German victory in the West, 1940 -- Stalingrad, 1942 -- The liberation of France, 1944 -- Inchon and the invasion of North Korea, 1950 -- The abiding wisdom of Sun Tzu.
ISBN:
9780393078138 (hardcover)0393078132 (hardcover)
Dewey class:
355.02
LC class:
U101.S96U101 ALE
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1739