Supreme Command - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Supreme Command write by Eliot A. Cohen. This book was released on 2012-04-17. Supreme Command available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “An excellent, vividly written” (The Washington Post) account of leadership in wartime that explores how four great democratic statesmen—Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion—worked with the military leaders who served them during warfare. The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war. When the chips are down, who should run the show—the politicians or the generals? In Supreme Command, Eliot A. Cohen expertly argues that great statesmen do not turn their wars over to their generals, and then stay out of their way. Great statesmen make better generals of their generals. They question and drive their military men, and at key times they overrule their advice. The generals may think they know how to win, but the statesmen are the ones who see the big picture. Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion led four very different kinds of democracy, under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. They came from four very different backgrounds—backwoods lawyer, dueling French doctor, rogue aristocrat, and impoverished Jewish socialist. Yet they faced similar challenges. Each exhibited mastery of detail and fascination with technology. All four were great learners, who studied war as if it were their own profession, and in many ways mastered it as well as did their generals. All found themselves locked in conflict with military men. All four triumphed. The powerful lessons of this “brilliant” (National Review) book will touch and inspire anyone who faces intense adversity and is the perfect gift for history buffs of all backgrounds.
The Supreme Command
The Supreme Command - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Supreme Command write by Forrest C. Pogue. This book was released on 1954. The Supreme Command available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Supreme Command
The Supreme Command - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Supreme Command write by Forrest C. Pogue. This book was released on 1954. The Supreme Command available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Supreme Commander
The Supreme Commander - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Supreme Commander write by Stephen E. Ambrose. This book was released on 2012-01-17. The Supreme Commander available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this classic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower the soldier, bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose examines the Allied commander’s leadership during World War II. Ambrose brings Eisenhower’s experience of the Second World War to life, showing in vivid detail how the general’s skill as a diplomat and a military strategist contributed to Allied successes in North Africa and in Europe, and established him as one of the greatest military leaders in the world. Ambrose, then the Associate Editor of the General’s official papers, analyzes Eisenhower’s difficult military decisions and his often complicated relationships with powerful personalities like Churchill, de Gaulle, Roosevelt, and Patton. This is the definitive account of Eisenhower’s evolution as a military leader—from its dramatic beginnings through his time at the top post of Allied command.
The Supreme Command, 1914-1918 (Routledge Revivals)
The Supreme Command, 1914-1918 (Routledge Revivals) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Supreme Command, 1914-1918 (Routledge Revivals) write by Lord Hankey. This book was released on 2014-08-07. The Supreme Command, 1914-1918 (Routledge Revivals) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lord Hankey (1877-1963) was a British civil servant and the first Cabinet Secretary, a top aide to Prime Minister David Lloyd George and the War Cabinet that directed Britain in World War One. Mostly derived from the author’s diaries, which begin in March 1915, this study describes how Lord Hankey contributed to the development of the British system of Cabinet Government during the war years. First published in 1961, the two-volume collection is a history of the Supreme Command of the War; the conduct of the war, the development of the Supreme Command from Balfour to Lloyd George, and the emergence of the Cabinet Secretariat from the Secretariat of the War Cabinet. It contains intimate glimpses of the statesmen, sailors and soldiers who guided affairs towards 1918. This is a fascinating first-hand examination of the people who influenced the conduct of the war, and will be of particular value to students interested in its diplomatic history.
