Alexander Bevin, Author, Bevin Alexander, Author Hippocrene Books $16.95 (566p) ISBN 978-0-7818-0065-5
This intriguing analysis presents a clear and readable account of the military aspects of the Korean war, while shedding light on the political, diplomatic and social aspects of the conflict. Photos, maps. (July)
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Bevin Alexander, Author . Crown $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-609-61039-8
This is a book whose argument would be more effective had the author not apparently refocused his manuscript after September 11. Alexander, a journalist and writer of general audience works on military subjects, challenges the relevance and...
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Bevin Alexander, Author . Crown Forum $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-5288-2
In this polemical, sometimes informative overview of U.S. military and diplomatic history from the French and Indian Wars to the war in Iraq, westward expansion was inevitable; the Mexican War was wise; slavery "did deflect and distort the dream,
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Bevin Alexander, Author . Crown $25.95 (337p) ISBN 978-0-307-34599-8
Military historian Alexander (Lost Victories
et al.) offers a well-reasoned brief that lays the blame for the Confederate defeat in the Civil War primarily on President Jefferson Davis and Gen. Robert E. Lee, and their war-long insistence on...
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Bevin Alexander, Author Quill $12.5 (320p) 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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Bevin Alexander, Author Crown Publishers $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8129-3202-7
Hitler's skills at spotting an opponent's weaknesses brought him an uninterrupted string of victories from the fall of Weimar in 1933 to the fall of France in 1940. Afterwards, argues Alexander (Robert E. Lee's Civil War), he began believing his own
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Bevin Alexander, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-03531-5
Alexander ( Korea: The First War We Lost ) reveals how some of the great military men of history applied common-sense principles of warfare that ``nearly always will secure victory.'' Relying on deception, these generals usually won their campaigns...
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Bevin Alexander, Author Henry Holt & Company $30 (350p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1830-1
Alexander ( Korea: The First War We Lost ) debuts as a Civil War historian by asserting that Stonewall Jackson, rather than Robert E. Lee, possessed the strategic insight that might have won Confederate independence. Jackson initially advocated...
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Bevin Alexander, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03780-7
At the core of Alexander's book are case studies describing 20th-century conflicts in which small, poorly equipped forces operated successfully against materially superior armies: the Boers against the British, the T.E. Lawrence-led Bedouins against
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Bevin Alexander, NAL Caliber, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-451-23120-8
Expert military strategist Alexander examines the battles that left the armies of Holland, France, Great Britain, and Belgium in ruins, revealing the methods Nazi Germany used in a six-week period in 1940 that ultimately led to the surrender of...
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