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The Mask of Command

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by John Keegan
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Availability:In StockContributor:John KeeganAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1988-10-04Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140114065ISBN-10:140114068UPC:9780140114065Book Category:Technology & Engineering, HistoryBook Subcategory:Military Science, MilitaryBook Topic:StrategySize:7.70 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCF1WR2CJH
John Keegan's brilliant look at the meaning of leadership

In The Mask of Command, John Keegan asks us to consider questions that are seldom asked: What is the definition of leadership? What makes a great military leader? Why is it that men, indeed sometimes entire nations, follow a single leader, often to victory, but with equal dedication also to defeat?

Dozens of names come to mind...Napoleon, Lee, Charlemagne, Hannibal, Castro, Hussein. From a wide array, Keegan chooses four commanders who profoundly influenced the course of history: Alexander the Great, the Duke of Wellington, Ulysses S. Grant and Adolph Hitler. All powerful leaders, each cast in a different mold, each with diverse results.

The Mask of Command is a companion volume to John Keegan's classic study of the individual soldier, The Face of Battle together they form a masterpiece of military and human history.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140114065ISBN-10:140114068UPC:9780140114065Book Category:Technology & Engineering, HistoryBook Subcategory:Military Science, MilitaryBook Topic:StrategySize:7.70 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCF1WR2CJH

Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan (1934-2012), was one of the most distinguished contemporary military historians and was for many years the senior lecturer at Sandhurst (the British Royal Military Academy) and the defense editor of the Daily Telegraph (London). Keegan was the author of numerous books including The Face of Battle, The Mask of Command, The Price of Admiralty, Six Armies in Normandy, and The Second World War, and was a fellow at the Royal Society of Literature.


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