The Mask of Command

Keegan, John

ISBN 10: 022401949X ISBN 13: 9780224019491

Published by Random House, London, United Kingdom, 1994

Language: English

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Title

The Mask of Command

Publisher

Random House, London, United Kingdom

Publication Date

1994

Language

English

ISBN 10

022401949X

ISBN 13

9780224019491

Binding

Hard Cover

Edition

First United Kingdom Edition.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good w/Protective Cover

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The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Through portraits of four generals - archetypal hero Alexander the Great, anti-hero Wellington, the unheroic Ulysses S. 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. He demonstrates how the role of the general alters with the ethos of the society that creates him and concludes that there is no place for heroism in a nuclear world.

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.

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"As well as being a rare military historian who can also write gracefully, John Keegan has a distinguished capacity for peering behind the conventional view of events" (Alistair Horne Sunday Times)

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