Napoleon's Glance: The Secret of Strategy - Couverture souple

Duggan, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1560256028 ISBN 13 : 9781560256021

Editeur : Bold Type Books, 2004

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

When Napoleon's Glance was first published last spring, former NATO secretary general and now putative presidential candidate Wesley Clark declared, "This is a very important book." In Napoleon's Glance strategist William Duggan shows how Clark, along with ten other important figures in the fields of politics, war and culture, owed their success to coup d'oeil. But what is coup d'oeil? Carl von Clausewitz spent twenty years struggling to pin down the genius of Napoleon. In chapter six of what would become "On War" he discovered the secret of Napoleon's strategy: Napoleon's glance. Clausewitz calls it "coup d'oeil" meaning a stroke of the eye, or "glance." A sudden insight that shows you what course of action to take, it comes from knowledge of the past, drawing on what worked in other situations in a new combination that fits the problem at hand. In Napoleon's Glance, Duggan expertly weaves intellectual history and biography in showing how important and decisive coup d'oeil is in determining victory in war, art, the civil rights movement, third world development, and the battle for women's suffrage in America.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bold Type Books
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1560256028
• ISBN 13: 9781560256021
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 304