The Mask Of Command - Softcover

Keegan, John

 
9780712665261: The Mask Of Command
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0712665269 ISBN 13: 9780712665261
Verlag: Pimlico, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

This book discusses generals: who they are, what they do, and how they do it affects the world in which we live. It argues that generalship is a cultural activity. It focuses on Alexander the Great, Wellington, Ulysses S. Grant and Hitler.

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John Keegan is the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, A History of Warfare (awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First World War, and most recently, Intelligence in War. For many years John Keegan was the Senior Lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and he has been a Fellow of Princeton University and Delmas Distinguished Professor of History at Vassar. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the OBE in the Gulf War honours list, and was knighted in the Millennium honours list in 1999. John Keegan died in August 2012.

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Verlag
Pimlico
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0712665269
ISBN 13 
9780712665261
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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