How Great Generals Win: The Brilliant Maneuvers and Military Strategies That Won Wars and Built Empires-And the Men Who Planned Them

Bevin Alexander. Quill, $12.5 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-380-72436-9

Alexander explores the tactics of such successful military figures as ``Stonewall'' Jackson, Genghis Kahn and Douglas MacArthur. (July)

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