Invincible Generals Gustavus Adolphus, Marlborough, Frederick the Great, George Washington, Wellington

Book Code:  SH2506

Invincible Generals Gustavus Adolphus, Marlborough, Frederick the Great, George Washington, Wellington

 

Profusely illustrated with illustrations and maps. Only a few of even the most famous military commanders of history are worthy of the title "great captain", those men who were not only masters of strategy and tactics, but whose influence was felt far beyond their own campaigns. They were a select band who made such an impact upon the art of war that their influence was evident for many generations, their names almost becoming legendary. Invincible Generals concerns five such commanders whose careers stretched in an almost unbroken line from the post-medieval world to the advent of "modem war" in the late nineteenth century. To examine their lives and achievements is to chart the development of warfare, its technological developments and its innovations from the 1600s to beyond the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

 

Philip J Haythornthwaite

Hardcover with d/w 240pp Firebird Books 1991 1st Ed

 

Fine/Fine