Buy this book on-line URBAN**, MARK: : GENERALS: TEN BRITISH COMMANDERS WHO SHAPED THE WORLDLONDON.FABER & FABER LIMITED,2005. ISBN 0571224857.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners,a tiny closed nick with miniscule rubbing to top edge,towards head of spine/ backstrip of dw/dj - else fine.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? Bright,clean,upper board's lower corner bumped/ dented,maroon paper-covered boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate taupe(?) speckled endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xiiipp+1-336pp [paginated] includes illus+maps lists/tables, author introduction,10 chapters on individual generals plus 1 chapter on generals (in general!),b/w contemporary,subject portrait illus/ vignetted separator pages,16pp colour+b/w contemporary illus/photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp114/5 and pp210/11 respectively,a bibliography and an index.Plus,[unpaginated] half-title+title pages.
From the best-selling author of 'Rifles' - see my book IDs rja766218 and rja796618 - the remarkable lives - and battles - of ten of Britain's greatest generals. Generals studied include: George Monck, John Churchill,William Howe,Prince Frederick Duke of York,Arthur Wellesley, Charles George Gordon,(Horatio) Herbert Kitchener,Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby,John Frederick Charles Fuller,Bernard Law Montgomery.
Mark Urban tells the story of ten exceptional soldiers who left their mark on Britain and the world.Some - including Wellington,Kitchener and Montgomery - are names etched in national mythology.
Others are more obscure figures whose achievements or failures may have had consequences quite different from those they had intended: the incompetence of one British General led to the creation of the United States of America,the ideas of another to the invention of Blitzkreig.
All ten of these generals revealed either a brilliant ability or a fatal flaw.While one became Prime Minister,another was beheaded. Success or failure depended largely on their ability to work within Britain's Parliamentary democracy - and against tyrants,despots and emperors who were often free to act alone.
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