On War and Leadership : : The Words of Combat Commanders from Frederick the Great to Norman Schwarzkopf /

On War and Leadership : : The Words of Combat Commanders from Frederick the Great to Norman Schwarzkopf / / Owen Connelly.

What can we learn about leadership and the experience of war from the best combat leaders the world has ever known? This book takes us behind the scenes and to the front lines of the major wars of the past 250 years through the words of twenty combat commanders. What they have to say--which is remar...

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Connelly, Owen,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2002
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. The Modern Originals
  • II. William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
  • III. Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863)
  • IV. John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916)
  • V. Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935): "Lawrence of Arabia"
  • VI. Archibald Percival Wavell (1883-1950)
  • VII. Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (1891-1945)
  • VIII. George S. Patton, Jr. (1885-1945)
  • IX. Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
  • X. Erich von Manstein (1887-1973)
  • XI. Bernard Law Montgomery (1887-1976)
  • XII. William Joseph Slim (1891-1970)
  • XIII. Joseph Warren "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (1883-1946)
  • XIV. Matthew Bunker Ridgway (1895-1993)
  • XV. Moshe Dayan (1915-1981)
  • XVI. Vo Nguyen Giap (1911- )
  • XVII. Harold G. Moore (1924- )
  • XVIII. Nicholas F. "Nick" Vaux (1936- ): Vaux and the Happy Warriors of 42 Commando
  • XIX. H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934- )
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Index

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