TY  - BOOK
AU  - KEEGAN John
TI  - Mask of command: a study of generalship
SN  - 0712665269 (pbk.):
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London
PB  - Pimlico
KW  - ALEXANDER THE GREAT
KW  - COMMAND AND CONTROL
KW  - GENERAL GRANT
KW  - GENERAL OFFICERS
KW  - HITLER
KW  - LEADERSHIP
KW  - MILITARY HISTORY
KW  - WELLINGTON
N2  - Through portraits of four generals - Alexander the Great, Wellington, Ulysses S Grant and Hitler - the author propounds the view of heroism in warfare as inextricably linked with the political imperative of the age. 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. First published in 1987
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