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BLUMENSON – STOKESBURY : Masters of the art of command (fülszöveg)

 

Two distinguished military historians collaborate on a revealing study of command in war. They are concerned with showing how commanders functioned, what they did, how they moved men to act in combat—all this while under the stress and pressures of battle.

"Military leadership, the art of command, has always been a subject of intense interest," writes Stokesbury in his Introduction. "That one man should be in a position to play God, that his decisions will govern the lives of hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of men naturally fascinates us . . . We want to know what decisions a leader makes, what choices he has available to him, and what there is in his own past and environment that influences his actions."

These are some of the questions the authors deal with in their studies of individual commanders—young officers, like Baum and Kingston, as well as the fabled "great captains" such as Sulla, the Roman, Saxe in 18th century France, and today's Jake Devers and Mark Clark. Masters of mobile warfare Patton and Montgomery are considered against the accomplishments of Iberville and Wolseley. "Coalition Warfare" includes the Franco-American alliance during our Revolution and the military partnership of World War II.

The profiles of personalities and their problems are set in a framework of the changing nature of warfare, from the wars of the Hittites and the Egyptians two thousand years before Christ to the present time.

 

Blumenson – Stokesbury

 


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