Sir Lawrence Freedman (Professor of War S Professor of War Studies

Broschiertes Buch

Strategy

A History

Beschreibung

One of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics synthesizes the vast history of strategy's evolution in this consistently engaging and surprising account of how it came to pervade every aspect of life.

Autor

Lawrence Freedman has been Professor of War Studies at King's College London since 1982, and Vice-Principal since 2003. Elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and awarded the CBE in 1996, he was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign in 1997. He was awarded the KCMG in 2003. In June 2009 he was appointed to serve as a member of the official inquiry into Britain and the 2003 Iraq War. Professor Freedman has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the cold war, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues. His most recent book, A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East, won the 2009 Lionel Gelber Prize and Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 55mm
• Gewicht: 1014g
• ISBN-13: 9780190229238
• ISBN-10: 0190229233
• Artikelnr.: 42767020