The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Grant and the false heroic of Hitler - John Keegan propounds the view of heroism in warfare as inextricable linked with the political imperative of the age and place.
The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Grant and the false heroic of Hitler - John Keegan propounds the view of heroism in warfare as inextricable linked with the political imperative of the age and place.
John Keegan is the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, A History of Warfare (awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First World War, and most recently, Intelligence in War. For many years John Keegan was the Senior Lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and he has been a Fellow of Princeton University and Delmas Distinguished Professor of History at Vassar. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the OBE in the Gulf War honours list, and was knighted in the Millennium honours list in 1999. John Keegan died in August 2012.
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Introduction: Pre-Heroic Leadership 1. Alexander the Great and Heroic Leadership Alexander: the Father of the Man The Achievement The Kingdom of Macedon The Macedonian Army Alexander's Staff Alexander and his Soldiers Ceremony and Theatre Alexander's Oratory Alexander on the Battlefield Alexander and the Mask of Command 2. Wellington: The Anti-Hero Wellington the Man Wellington and Western Military Society Wellington's Army Wellington's Staff Wellington's Routine Wellington and the Presentation of Self Wellington in Battle Observation and Sensation 3. Grant and Unheroic Leadership Grant and the Progress of War The Professional Career of U.S. Grant Grant's Army Grant's Staff Grant on Campaign Grant the Fighter Grant and American Democracy 4. False Heroic: Hitler as Supreme Commander War and Hitler's World The War Hitler Made Hitler's Soldiers Hitler's Headquarters Hitler in Command Hitler and the Theatre of Leadership Conclusion: Post-Heroic: Command in the Nuclear World The Imperative of Kinship The Imperative of Prescription The Imperative of Sanction The Imperative of Action The Imperative of Example The Validation of Nuclear Authority Select Bibliography Index
Introduction: Pre-Heroic Leadership 1. Alexander the Great and Heroic Leadership Alexander: the Father of the Man The Achievement The Kingdom of Macedon The Macedonian Army Alexander's Staff Alexander and his Soldiers Ceremony and Theatre Alexander's Oratory Alexander on the Battlefield Alexander and the Mask of Command 2. Wellington: The Anti-Hero Wellington the Man Wellington and Western Military Society Wellington's Army Wellington's Staff Wellington's Routine Wellington and the Presentation of Self Wellington in Battle Observation and Sensation 3. Grant and Unheroic Leadership Grant and the Progress of War The Professional Career of U.S. Grant Grant's Army Grant's Staff Grant on Campaign Grant the Fighter Grant and American Democracy 4. False Heroic: Hitler as Supreme Commander War and Hitler's World The War Hitler Made Hitler's Soldiers Hitler's Headquarters Hitler in Command Hitler and the Theatre of Leadership Conclusion: Post-Heroic: Command in the Nuclear World The Imperative of Kinship The Imperative of Prescription The Imperative of Sanction The Imperative of Action The Imperative of Example The Validation of Nuclear Authority Select Bibliography Index
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