Bibliograph

Sun Tzu at Gettysburg, ancient military wisdom in the modern world, Bevin Alexander

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Sun Tzu at Gettysburg, ancient military wisdom in the modern world, Bevin Alexander

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sun Tzu at Gettysburg

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

779863583

Responsibility statement

Bevin Alexander

Sub title

ancient military wisdom in the modern world

Summary

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

Table Of 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

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