From the Jaws of Victory

Fair, Charles

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Simon and Schuster, New York, 1971

0671209973 / 9780671209971

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445, [3] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The dust jacket is price clipped and has wear, creases and soiling. This copy has a gift inscription (not from the author) that reads: "In the fervent hope that this will improve our diplomatic efforts abroad - Christmas 1971 Ron + Suzie". From the Jaws of Victory is a classic work of military history that explores the history, character, causes, and consequences of military stupidity. The book delivers an iconoclastic, witty, and deeply researched analysis of how incompetent commanders throughout history have managed to sabotage their own success. Charles Maitland Fair (September 18, 1916 - July 28, 2014) was an American neuroscience researcher and writer. Charles M. Fair was a true polymath. Over his lifetime, he worked as a neuroscientist, jazz pianist, computer executive, and cultural critic, publishing academic papers in Science alongside poetry in The New Yorker. His diverse background allowed him to examine military history with a uniquely sharp psychological perspective. Derived from a Kirkus review: Many historians must plod on without Clio's inspiration, but fortunately Charles Fair has the muse in his hip pocket. In From the Jaws of Victory, he gives the ineptitudes and gaffes of politico-military leaders from Ancient Rome to contemporary U.S.A. a stern but snappy dress review, and the result is an intelligent, lively book which is at once instructive history and good reading. With an unrelenting eye for human pomposity, idiosyncrasy, and witless behavior, Fair takes potshots from his hindsight-ful foxhole at the helmeted ninnies of the western world, "those clumsy, wanton, single-minded men who during the few thousand years of our history have framed the policies and directed the battles which have brought such an extremity of trouble upon the rest of us," beginning with the Roman Crassus whose gullibility did him in at the hands of the Parthians, and then proceeding chronologically through such stalwarts as Philip VI and Edward III, antagonists in the Hundred Years' War; Charles XII of Sweden, the "tiny lion" who scared hell out of the "enormous mouse," Peter the Great, until his luck ran out; Napoleon ("It is not usual. . . to classify him as a bad general, but in certain quite crucial ways he was one"); the American Civil War generals, with a separate chapter devoted to Ambrose Burnside, perhaps history's most incompetent military leader; Sir Ian Hamilton ("his orders. . . were colorful and intricate but often difficult to summarize"); the unforgettable Adolf Hitler; and, ending with LBJ and General Westmoreland ("Westy" was a model of a modern general except that "his superiors failed to see the one thing be lacked: he was not Big-Time"). It's a devastating critique which will both amuse and alarm readers.

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Titre
From the Jaws of Victory
Auteur
Fair, Charles
Éditeur
Simon and Schuster, New York
Année de publication
1971
État de l'article
Very good
Jaquette
Fair
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0671209973
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780671209971
Édition
First Printing [Stated].
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