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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 148807 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Duration: 10:21:09. |
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Read by James Slattery. |
| Summary |
Throughout history, great generals have done what their enemies have least expected. Instead of direct, predictable attack, they have deceived, encircled, outflanked, out-thought, and triumphed over often superior armies commanded by conventional thinkers. Collected here are the stories of the most successful commanders of all time-among them Hannibal, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Stonewall Jackson, Sherman, Rommel, Mao Tse-tung, who have demonstrated, at their own points in history, the strategic and tactical genius essential for victory. Ironically this virtue does not come naturally to military organizations, since more often than not the straight-ahead, narrow-thinking soldier will be promoted over his more lateral-minded, devious counterpart. Yet when the latter gets control, the results may be spectacular. |
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Military art and science -- History. -- Sound recordings.
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Battles. -- Sound recordings.
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Generals. -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Slattery, James.
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| ISBN |
0786153164 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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9780786153169 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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