| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 624 pages) : portraits |
| Series |
Pen & sword military classics (Series) ; number 61 |
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Pen & Sword military classics (Series) ; no. 61.
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| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Field-Marshal Sir Michael Carver""; ""JELLICOE A. Temple-Patterson""; ""JOFFRE General André Beaufre""; ""HAIG John Terraine""; ""HINDENBURG Norman Stone""; ""PETAIN Alistair Horne""; ""LUDENDORFF Norman Stone""; ""HAMILTON Robert Rhodes James""; ""KEMAL Lord Kinross""; ""VON FALKENHAYN Alistair Horne""; ""FOCH General André Beaufre""; ""MONASH Malcolm Falkus""; ""ALLENBY Major General Anthony Farrar-Hackley""; ""PERSHING Donald Smythe""; ""TRENCHARD Gavin Lyall"" |
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VON RUNDSTEDT Andreas HillgruberDOWDING Gavin Lyall -- WAVELL Bernard Fergusson -- VON MANSTEIN Albert Seaton -- ZHUKOV John Erickson -- AUCHINLECK Correlli Barnett -- ROMMEL Charles Douglas-Home -- KONIEV John Erickson -- GUDERIAN John Strawson -- HARRIS Martin Middlebrook -- ALEXANDER Nigel Nicolson -- STILWELL Riley Sunderland -- MOUNTBATTEN Vice Admiral Sir Ronald Brockman -- SLIM Lieutenant General Sir Geoffrey Evans -- YAMAMOTO Captain Roger Pineau -- NIMITZ Henry H. Adams -- MACARTHUR Stephen E. Ambrose -- HALSEY James Bassett |
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SPRUANCE Henry H. AdamsCUNNINGHAM Lieutenant-Commander Peter Kemp -- DOENITZ Lieutenant-Commander Peter Kemp -- TEDDER Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley Norris -- MONTGOMERY Ronald Lewin -- EISENHOWER Don Cook -- BRADLEY Forrest C. Pogue -- PATTON Martin Blumenson -- SPAATZ Alfred Goldberg -- FREYBERG Dan Davin -- JUIN Colonel Adolphe Goutard -- INDEX |
| Summary |
In THE WAR LORDS, Field Marshal Lord Carver has assembled an engrossing series of short, detailed biographies of forty-three of the dominant military commanders of the twentieth century century, American, British, German and French: Field-Marshal the Earl Alexander, E.H.H. Allenby, Claude Auchinleck, Field-Marshal Sir, Omar N. Bradley, General of the Army, Andrew Browne Cunningham, Admiral of the Fleet the Viscount, Karl Doenitz, Admiral, Hugh C.T. Dowding, Air Chief Marshal, Dwight D. Eisenhower, General of the Army, Ferdinand Foch, Bernard Freyberg, Lieutenant-General Lord, Heinz Guderian, G |
| Notes |
Originally published in 1976 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
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Includes index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Armed Forces -- Officers -- Biography
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Military history, Modern -- 20th century.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Armed Forces -- Officers
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Military history, Modern
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Feldherr
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carver, Michael, 1915-2001
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| LC no. |
2006404715 |
| ISBN |
9781473800427 |
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1473800420 |
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1306862841 |
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9781306862844 |
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9781473819740 |
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1473819741 |
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