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The Swordbearers - Supreme Command in the First World War (Paperback, Main)
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The Swordbearers - Supreme Command in the First World War (Paperback, Main)
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Von Moltke and 'quick victory': Jellicoe and the Battle of Jutland:
Petain and the wave of mutinies: Ludendorff and the 1918
offensives. Four key men, four key moments in the Great War.
Corelli Barnett, in his famous study, writes with brilliant insight
about these flawed men grappling with events that were outside
their comprehension. In his preface he writes thus: 'The Theme of
this book is the decisive effect of individual human character on
history. The background, in sharpest contrast, is a sudden and
violent transition to mass collectivised life - to twentieth
century industrial civilization. The principal actors are four
national commanders-in-chief: two German, one Frenchman, one
Englishman. Theirs was the novel task of directing these new and
terrifying forces of mass powering battle. Each had been born and
bred in the last century; each belonged to a highly conservative
profession. Their abilities and defects reflected and illustrated
those of their countries. For the historian, with the priceless
gift of hindsight, it is moving and fascinating, therefore, to
study these men locked in struggle with events greater than
themselves; to see their moments of clarity and prophesy, of
optimistic self-delusion, of uncertainty, of despair. Each in turn,
as commander-in-chief, bore his nation's sword at a period when the
course of the war pivoted on his judgement and will: four actors in
a continental tragedy of death and re-birth.'
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