Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Keegan, John |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Date: | 10/4/1988 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
John Keegan’s brilliant look at the meaning of leadership
In The Mask of Command, John Keegan asks us to considerquestions that are seldom asked: What is the definition ofleadership? What makes a great military leader? Why is it that men,indeed sometimes entire nations, follow a single leader, often to victory, butwith equal dedication also to defeat?
Dozens of names come to , Lee,Charlemagne, Hannibal, Castro, Hussein. From a wide array, Keegan chooses fourcommanders who profoundly influenced the course of history: Alexander the Great,the Duke of Wellington, Ulysses S. Grant and Adolph Hitler. All powerfulleaders, each cast in a different mold, each with diverseresults.
The Mask of Command is a companion volume to John Keegan’s classic study of the individual soldier, The Face of Battle: together they form a masterpiece of military and human history.
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