The Swordbearers: Supreme Command in the First World War - Couverture souple

Barnett, Correlli

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0304352837 ISBN 13 : 9780304352838

Editeur : Cassell Military, 2000

Synopsis

Correlli Barnett made his reputation with these brilliant studies of the key commanders whose decisions determined the course of the First World War. With great insight and penetrating judgement, he investigates: Colonel General von Moltke masterminded the German's initial attack on France in 1914; Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, who commanded the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet; General Petain, the French leader who halted the German advances at Verdun in 1916; and General Erich Ludendorff who led the last great German offensives in the summer of 1918. In this moving and fascinating account, Correlli Barnett describes how these men struggled with events greater than themselves, and shows their moments of clarity and prophecy, of optimistic self-delusion, of uncertainty and despair. The period of their command together spans the war years, and gives a continuous history of the war on the western front.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Correlli Barnett is the author of many distinguished books, among them The Desert Generals, The Sword Bearers and The Collapse of British Power. Since 1977 he has been Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From 1973 to 1985 he was also a member of Council of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and of the Royal Historical Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cassell Military
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0304352837
• ISBN 13: 9780304352838
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
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