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Napoleon's Glance: The Secret of Strategy Paperback - 2004

by William Duggan

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The first popular book on military strategy for the general reader, "Napoleon's Glance" shows how Napoleon's battlefield secret has also been used by distinguished figures from the worlds of politics, war, and culture.

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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.

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Take a close look at great heroes of history and you see that they're all very different, except for one thing: They're all great strategists.

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  • Title Napoleon's Glance: The Secret of Strategy
  • Author William Duggan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Pages 293
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Nation Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2004-03-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781560256021 / 1560256028
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects Strategy
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002075071
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.4

About the author

William Duggan teaches strategy at Columbia Business School. He has twenty years of experience as a strategy advisor and consultant. He is also cofounder of Creative Strategy group, which helps organizations and individuals apply the art of Napoleon's strategies to whatever they do.
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