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Country United States Publication date 1979 Adaptations Power Play (1978) | 4/5 Goodreads Language English Originally published 1968 Publisher Harvard University Press | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook (1968) is a history book by Edward Luttwak examining the conditions, strategy, planning, and execution of coups d'état. A revised edition of the book, with references to twenty-first century technology, was published in 2016.
Critical response
In a 1980 review of the book, Richard Clutterbuck called Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook (1968) one of "only two general contemporary books on the subject" of military coups d'état that are worthwhile in content and readerly interest, the other being Samuel Finer's The Man on Horseback. However, Clutterbuck criticises the book for not further emphasising the role of the news media in determining the likely success of a coup d'état.
References
Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA