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Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World

Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World

Alexander, Bevin

Paperback

Civil War Period (1850-1877)Military Strategy

ISBN10: 039334245X
ISBN13: 9780393342451
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Jun 1 2012
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Imagine if Robert E. Lee had withdrawn to higher ground at Gettysburg instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line.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.

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