Soldier, the Builder and the Diplomat: Custer, the Titanic and World War One: Custer, the Titanic & World War One - Hardcover

Schlesser, Steven

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1885942079 ISBN 13: 9781885942074

Publisher: Cune Press,US, 2006

Synopsis

Contemporary readers, who wonder at the British and American knack for misguided adventure, find useful these three essays on Custer, the Titanic, and the onset of World War I. This book consists of rapier-like literary thrusts into the lives of General George Armstrong Custer, Thomas Andrews (the builder of the Titanic), and Edward Grey.

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Synopsis:

Contemporary readers, who wonder at the British and American knack for misguided adventure, will enjoy these three essays on Custer, the Titanic, and the onset of World War I. The book consists of rapier-like literary thrusts into the lives of General George Armstrong Custer, Thomas Andrews (the builder of the Titanic), and Edward Grey (British Foreign Secretary before World War I). However, spectacular their failures, it's generally agreed that these men (or, in the case of Edward Grey, the men around them) could have avoided disaster except for arrogance - a flaw that has long characterised the imperial ambition of leaders from both countries. One shudders to think where such a mentality will take us in a nuclear age. Schlesser's readable study is more than entertainment or scholarship, it is a plea for balance, probity, and reason in an era when a single fit of arrogance by a world leader can devastate hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings and imperil the very project of civilised human existence on this planet. It's difficult to overstate the importance of this unassuming book. Essays on the problem of pride and avoidable failure.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cune Press,US
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1885942079
• ISBN 13: 9781885942074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192