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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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: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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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).