- Title : Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World
- Author : Bevin Alexander
- Rating : 4.65 (453 Vote)
- Publish : 2016-3-17
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 304 Pages
- Asin : 039334245X
- Language : English
When Alexander frames these modern battles against 2,400-year-old precepts, the degree of overlap is stunning. 18 maps. “The world’s most fascinating battles and how they were won or lost, according to the Chinese sage.”Kirkus Reviews Imagine if Ro
When Alexander frames these modern battles against 2,400-year-old precepts, the degree of overlap is stunning.
18 maps. “The world’s most fascinating battles and how they were won or lost, according to the Chinese sage.”Kirkus Reviews Imagine if Robert E. The advice that would have changed these crucial battles was written down centuries before Christ was bornbut unfortunately for Lee, Napoléon, and Hitler, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War only became widely available in the West in the mid-twentieth century. Lee had withdrawn to higher ground at Gettysburg instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line. Or if Napoléon, at Waterloo, had avoided mistakes he’d never made before. As Bevin Alexander shows, Sun Tzu’s maxims often boil down to common sense, in a particularly pure and clear formHe lives in Bremo Bluff, Virginia. Bevin Alexander is the author of How Great Generals Win, Lost Victories, and Inside the Nazi War Machine.
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" . On display is Alexander 's penchant for counterfactual history, which will pique military-history readers as Alexander imparts different scenarios for how the Revolutionary War, Waterloo, the Civil War, WWI, WWII, and the Korean War could have turned out.On display is Alexander s penchant for counterfactual history, which will pique military-history readers as Alexander imparts different scenarios for how the Revolutionary War, Waterloo, the Civil War, WWI, WWII, and the Korean War could have turned out
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