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How Great Generals Win Written By - Bevin Alexander Narrated By - James Slattery Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Runtime : 11 hours 30 minutes Categories : Military Military Historical Price : $34.95 $23.95 Buy Now... "This study is essential reading for students of military strategy and tactics." Publishers Weekly 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 timeamong them Hannibal, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Stonewall Jackson, Sherman, Rommel, Mao Zedongwho 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. Other titles you may be interested in Talking of History Number 3: The Duke of Wellington Written By - Berwick Coates Narrated By - Berwick Coates Published By : Berwick Coates Runtime : 49 minutes Categories : Pre 1900 British Military Politics Historical Price : $8.49 Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, is the only professional soldier in English history to have served also as Prime Minister... More info... Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, The: A Memoir Written By - Bill Bryson Narrated By - Bill Bryson Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd Runtime : 7 hours 30 minutes Categories : Autobiography Historical Biographical Biographical 20th Century Price : $26.49 Bill Bryson's hilarious memoir of growing up in middle America in the Fifties - complete, unabridged and read by the author More info... Founding Mothers Written By - Cokie Roberts Narrated By - Cokie Roberts Published By : Harper Collins US Runtime : 6 hours Categories : American Social & Economic Biographical Historical Women Price : $29.95 $16.95 Cokie Roberts brings to life the women who raised our nation. More info... Isaac Newton's New Physics Written By - Dr. Gordon Brittan Narrated By - Edwin Newman Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Runtime : 3 hours Categories : Historical Biographical Self Help Price : $12.95 Isaac Newton (1642-1727) achieved momentous breakthroughs in three areas: mathematics (the calculus), a theory of colors, and gravitational attraction. His first insights in each of these areas occ... More info...