The war lords (fülszöveg)
In The War Lords, Field Marshal Sir Michael Carver has assembled an engrossing series of short, detailed biographies of forty-three of the dominant military commanders of this century.
Nigel Nicholson, Gavin Lyall, Martin Blumenson, Alistair Horne, and many others—all first-class prose stylists, as well as military historians of the highest order—take the measure of such leaders as Rommel, MacArthur, Patton, Montgomery, Yamamoto, Stilwell, Nimitz, Eisenhower, Zhukov, Halsey, Foch, Pershing, Ludendorff, Hindenburg, and more. The list not only includes those commanders whose names remain household words, but also men whose military genius has earned them unquestionable distinction even if their sphere of command was less extended. Here are immortals such as Monash, the Australian who was one of the few among the First World War military to think his way out of the deadly impasse of the trenches; Mountbatten, who was denied the opportunity himself to exploit his advanced thinking in amphibious warfare; Guderian, who long before Patton showed the power of highly mobile armored forces. There are also penetrating analyses of those high-ranking leaders who were an inspiration to their troops but a constant trial to those in command of or attempting to cooperate with them.
Each figure—his character and strategy, his talents and eccentricities—is assessed both in the context of his own period and in the overall history of twentieth-century warfare. As Field Marshal Carver writes in his introduction: "The twentieth century has brought new dimensions to war. This book sets out to show how the major military figures in the two world wars of the first half of the century attempted to direct war in conditions which ... were unfamiliar. The pace of change was fast and the military profession tends to be conservative between wars for lack of opportunity to test itself in changing conditions. In war change is so rapid that it is difficult for anybody to adapt himself to it; but adapt themselves the participants must and do."
In sum, The War Lords offers a concise, lucid, and notably balanced group portrait of the men who, in victory or defeat, have irrevocably altered the fate of millions and the manner in which nations have met on the field of battle.
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