Sun Tzu at Gettysburg Ancient Military Wisdon in the Modern World

Name: Sun Tzu at Gettysburg Ancient Military Wisdon in the Modern World
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ISBN: 9780393342451

ISBN-10: 039334245X

ISBN-13: 9780393342451

Edition: 2012

Authors: Bevin Alexander

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Imagine if Robert E. Lee had withdrawn to higher ground at Gettysburg instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line.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. The advice that would have changed these crucial battles was written down centuries before Christ was born—but 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. As Bevin Alexander shows, Sun Tzu’s maxims often boil down to common sense, in a particularly pure and clear form. When Alexander frames these modern battles against 2,400-year-old precepts, the degree of overlap is stunning.On…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Bevin Alexander is the author of five books on military history, & his battle studies of the Korean War, written during his decorated service as a combat historian, are stored in the National Archives. He lives in Bremo Bluff, Virginia.



List of Maps


Introduction: To Avoid Strength, Strike Weakness



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


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index