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Re:Ask HN: good books about military strategy? by benzim on Thursday January 29, 2009 @09:05AM (#456333)
I can't think of any books, but you can find good descriptions of strategy used in famous battles on wikipedia. Some interesting battles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ilipa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alesia

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Re:Ask HN: good books about military strategy? by bdr on Thursday January 29, 2009 @02:07PM (#456916)
This one kept me up one night: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae -- and I almost never read history/military books.
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Re:Ask HN: good books about military strategy? by rodrigo on Thursday January 29, 2009 @03:54PM (#457102)
Theres a downloadable Stanford lecture on Hannibal, wich is great; the archeologist guy who gives the talk was involved in a student expedition across the Alps, with a real elephant!
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