The Swordbearers: Supreme Command in the First World War (Midland Books: No. 1)

Barnett, Correlli

ISBN 10: 0253201756 / ISBN 13: 9780253201751

Published by Indiana University Press, 1975

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THE TRUE STORY OF MEN ON BOTH SIDES OF THE CONFLICT WITH EVENTS GREATER THAN THEMSELVES. HEREIN WE SEE SUCH MEN IN THEIR MOMENTS OF CLARITY AND PROPHECY, AS WELL AS MOMENTS OF SELF-DELUSION, UNCERTAINITY AND DISPAIR.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Swordbearers: Supreme Command in the First World War (Midland Books: No. 1)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253201756
• ISBN 13: 9780253201751
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • War & Vehicles

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Synopsis

Interprets the major events of World War I through an analysis of the actions and characters of four supreme commanders, Ludendorff, Petain, Jellicoe, and Moltke

About the Author

Correlli Barnett is a world-renowned historian with particular prowess in military, naval, economic and social subjects. Faber Finds are reissuing his four volume The Pride and Fall sequence: The Collapse of British Power, The Audit of War, The Lost Victory, The Verdict of Peace, as well as The Swordbearers, Britain and her Army, 1509-1970 (winner of the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Award) and Engage the Enemy More Closely (winner of the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award).