A narrative account of decisive engagements that succeeded by brilliant strategy more than by direct force. The book looks at Roman legionaries; Mongol horsemen; Napoleonic soldiers; American Civil War rebels and Yankees; World War I Tommies; Lawrence of Arabia’s Bedouins; Chinese revolutionaries, British Desert Rats; Rommel’s Afrika Korps; and Douglas MacArthur’s Inchon invaders. However varied the weapons, the soldiers of all those eras followed a commander who faced the same obstacles and demonstrated the straegic and tactical genius essential for victory.