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Napoleon on the Art of War Selected, Edited, and Translated by Jay Luvaas
Hardcover. Condition - as new. Published by The Free Press, New York 1999. ISBN: 0-684-85185-7
"In war men are nothing, one man is everything. The presence of the general is indispensable. He is the head, the whole of the army. It was not the Roman army that subdued Gaul, but Caesar; not the Carthaginian army that caused the Republic to tremble at the gates of Rome, but Hannibal; not the Macedonian Army that reached the Indus, but Alexander; not the French army that carried the war to the Weser and the Inn but Turenne; and not the Prussian army that defended Prussia for seven years against the three greatest powers of Europe, but Frederick the Great.... In war only the commander understands the importance of certain things, and he alone, through his will and superior insight, conquers and surmounts all difficulties. An army is nothing without the head."