Leadership in war : from Lincoln to Churchill /
In this controversial study, Correlli Barnett examines the strengths and weaknesses of twenty wartime leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He considers the extraordinary difficulties they faced, and analyses how they performed and what they achieved. Were they successful, or were...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Barnsley :
Praetorian Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Plates; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Nineteenth Century; Prologue: The Romantic Ideal of Leadership; Chapter 1: Crusader with a Blunt Sword; Chapter 2: A Study in Contrast; Chapter 3: The Calculator of Victory; Chapter 4: The Price of Incompetence; Part II: The Great War 1914-18; Chapter 5: Nerve and Loss of Nerve; Chapter 6: Strategic Coward; Chapter 7: Saviour of an Army; Chapter 8: Leader to Catastrophe; Chapter 9: The Victor of 1918; Part III: The Second World War 1939-45; Chapter 10: Leader from the Front
- Chapter 11: The Reluctant GamblerChapter 12: From Defeat into Victory1; Chapter 13: Fire Raiser in Chief; Chapter 14: Neptune's Admiral; Chapter 15: Coalition Supreme Commander; Chapter 16: Stalin's Marshal; Chapter 17: Spellbinder and Fantasist; Chapter 18: Victory at all Costs; Maps; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index
