The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Most studies of generalship have focused on individual character and behaviour. While these are not neglected in this remarkable book, its central argument is that, like warfare itself, generalship is a cultural enterprise, providing a key to understanding a particular era or place, as much as it is an exercise in power or military skill. Through portraits of four generals - archetypal hero Alexander the Great, anti-hero Wellington, the unheroic Ulysses S. Grant and the false heroic of Hitler - John Keegan propounds the view of heroism in warfare as inextricable linked with the political imperative of the age and place. He demonstrates how the role of the general alters with the ethos of the society that creates him and concludes that there is no place for heroism in a nuclear world. 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.

Dit boek is verraderlijk. Net zo verraderlijk als de wereld van de valse kunst waarin het speelt. Dit is alweer de zesde schelmenroman van F.H. Kreuger.

Schelmenroman.

Een viool die ooit aan de grote violist Paganini toebehoorde, belandt in Delft.

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Geschiedenis van de technische ontwikkelingen eind negentiende eeuw en begin twintigste eeuw.

Het levensverhaal van de Nederlandse schilder (1632-1675) aan de hand van zijn schilderijen.

Het levensverhaal van de Nederlandse schilder (1632-1675) aan de hand van zijn schilderijen.