Marshall: Lessons in Leadership: Great Generals
Autor H. Paul Jeffersen Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 iun 2010
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780230614161
ISBN-10: 0230614167
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: Includes 8 pp. b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 144 x 217 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Palgrave
Seria Great Generals
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0230614167
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: Includes 8 pp. b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 144 x 217 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Palgrave
Seria Great Generals
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Foreword; General Wesley K. Clark
Introduction: This Ghastly Game
The Beast
Junior Officer
This Little Village
The Wizard
Little Black Book
America the Unready
Rainbow
Lighting a Flame
Blood and Sand
Victory is Certain
Mighty Endeavor
Marshall's Boys at Work
'We Can Still Lose This War'
Warrior Statesman
War and Peace
Soldier Statesman
Notes
Index
Recenzii
Reviews of Command of Honor:
'Jeffers...chronicles the career of one of the forgotten heroes of WWII in this informative and sprightly popular biography. [A] first - and long overdue - biography.' - Publishers Weekly
'Well-written, fast-paced, fascinating and long overdue.' - Mark Perry, author of Partners in Command
Notă biografică
H. PAUL JEFFERS is an established Military Historian and author of seventy books. He has worked as an Editor and Producer at ABC, CBS and NBC, and is the only person to have been News Director of both of New York City's all-news radio stations. He has taught journalism at New York University, Syracuse University, and Boston University.
Caracteristici
As we disengage in Iraq and send more troops to Afghanistan, Marshall's lessons in nation-building will be an important guide for our military leadersMarshall's story is relevant today due to his skill in combining military strategy and politics, his emphasis on planning as well as execution, and his ideas about reconstructing a nation that was destroyed by dictatorship and war
During World War II Marshall never fired a shot and led no troops into battle. Unlike any other book in the series, this book will focus on a general whose brilliance was purely strategic and diplomatic