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BOND : Liddell Hart (fülszöveg)

 

Sir Basil Liddell Hart is probably the most famous military critic, historian and philosopher of war of the twentieth century. At various times in his long career, his original ideas on tactics and strategy exerted considerable influence in Britain and beyond, and he was one of the first to foresee the implications of atomic and nuclear weapons for the likely nature of future wars. Yet he was a controversial figure, criticized in some quarters, particularly for his influence on British military policy in the 1930s and his attitude to the defeated German generals after 1945, and in his turn a severe critic of Churchill's statesmanship and Allied grand strategy.

Although Liddell Hart's theories are widely studied in universities and military academies, this sympathetic but critical account is the first book-length study of his thought, indeed the first book to cover the whole of his career. Brian Bond has drawn on the voluminous private papers of Liddell Hart in order to trace the events and people that influenced him, the development and dissemination of his theories, their reception at the time and later, and their effects. Particular attention is given to his influence on the theory and practice of the German Army before the Second World War, and on the Israeli Army.

This is not a full-scale biography, but nevertheless shows how the young subaltern on the Western Front developed into "the Captain who teaches Generals", whose outstanding achievement may well have been the transformation of military thought itself.

 

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