Author : Correlli Barnett
Publisher : London : Eyre & Spottiswoode
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000008739967
The Swordbearers; Supreme Command in the First World War by Correlli Barnett Pdf
The theme of this book is the decisive effect of individual human character on history. The background, in sharpest contrast, is a sudden and violent transition to mass collectivised life - to twentieth-century industry civilisation. The principal actors are four national commanders-in-chief: two German, one Frenchman, one Englishman. Theirs was the novel task of directing these new and terrifying forces of mass power in battle. Each had been born and bred in the last age; each belonged to a highly conservative profession. Their abilities and defects reflected and illustrated those of their countries.