ISBN: 9780472115211 - the eye of command (7 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Offers an approach to studying and narrating battles, based upon an analysis of the works of the Roman military authors Julius Caesar and Ammianus Marcellinus. The author explains the significance of a battle s major events, how they relate to one another, .

Zustand: New. Offers an approach to studying and narrating battles, based upon an analysis of the works of the Roman military authors Julius Caesar and Ammianus Marcellinus. The author explains the significance of a battle's major events, how they relate to one another, and how they lead to a battle's outcome. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: HBW; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572. . 2006. Annotated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Published in 1976, Sir John Keegan's 'The Face of Battle' was a groundbreaking work in military history studies, providing narrative techniques that served as a model for countless subsequent scholarly and popular military histories. Keegan's approach to understanding battles stressed the importance of small unit actions and personal heroism, an approach widely employed in the narratives produced by reporters embedded with American combat troops in Iraq. Challenging Keegan's seminal work, 'The Eye of Command' offers a new approach to studying and narrating battles, based upon an analysis of the works of the Roman military authors Julius Caesar and Ammianus Marcellinus. Kimberly Kagan argues that historians cannot explain a battle's outcome solely on the basis of soldiers' accounts of small-unit actions. A commander's view, exemplified in Caesar's narratives, helps explain the significance of a battle's major events, how they relate to one another and how they lead to a battle's outcome. The 'eye of command' approach also answers fundamental questions about the way commanders perceive battles as they fight them-questions modern military historians have largely ignored. ''The Eye of Command' is a remarkable book-smart, thoughtful, clear, vigorous, factual but creative, and grounded in the practical. It is at once scholarly and readable, combining classical scholarship and military theory. Rarely have I come across a book that makes two-thousand-year-old events seem so alive.'-Barry Strauss, Professor of History, Cornell University 'In a work well written, concisely presented, and convincingly argued, Kagan uses examples from Caesar's Gallic Wars to challenge John Keegan'sfocus on lower-echelon experiences of battle in favor of 'The eye of command': a narrative technique emphasizing decisions and events that shape a battle's outcome.'-Dennis Showalter, Professor of History, Colorado College 'To know whether a battle is won or lost is.…