TY - BOOK AU - Luttwak, Edward. TI - Coup d'état: a practical handbook SN - 9780674737 U1 - 321.09LUT PY - 2016/// CY - Cambridge PB - Harvard University Press KW - Coups d'état--Handbooks, manuals N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - A book that aids understanding how governments and states really work. That aim is pursued by presenting in full detail how a coup d'état would be planned and executed, from the first approach to fellow-conspirators, to the post-coup announcements promising a new era of progress and stability. Coup d' État has continued to find readers around the world----it has appeared in sixteen foreign languages--but with the passage of time, this fully revised new edition became necessary. Even readers who do not plan to use it as a practical handbook will find it interesting, as well as instructive ER -