Leadership in War von Andrew Roberts
Lessons from Those Who Made History

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 256 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Verlag: Penguin Books UKPenguin
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780141987545

Roberts is superbly well-qualified to write about these extraordinary leaders.Roberts teaches not just through analysis, as indeed he does, but by example.Each of his chapters is a finely crafted gem of communication. Roberts's description offers vivid detail, spare prose, immortal rhetoric, and a touch of humor. His chapters offer masterly, magnificent portraits of what it takes to steer an army or a nation through a crisis.Any leader would envy the chance to have Roberts as his or her speechwriter or Director of Communications.Every reader can be grateful for such a thrilling and succinct account of leadership. Barry Strauss The New Criterion

'Wonderful ... among military historians, Roberts is Britain's crown gem'Wall Street Journal<br><br>Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, celebrated historian Andrew Roberts presents us with a bracingly honest and insightful look at nine major figures in modern history: Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, George C. Marshall, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Margaret Thatcher.<br><br>Each of these leaders fundamentally shaped the outcome of the war their nation was embroiled in. How were they alike, and in what ways did they differ? Was their war leadership unique, or did these leaders have something in common, traits and techniques that transcend time and place and can be applied to the fundamental nature of conflict?<br><br>Meticulously researched and compellingly written,Leadershipin Warpresents readers with fresh, complex portraits of leaders who approached war with different tactics and different weapons, but with the common goal of success in the face of battle. Both inspiring and cautionary, these portraits offer important lessons on leadership in times of struggle. With his trademark verve and incisive observation, Roberts reveals the qualities that doom even the most promising leaders to failure, and the qualities that lead to victory.

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Andrew Roberts(Lord Roberts of Belgravia) is a biographer and historian of international renown whose books includeSalisbury: Victorian Titan(winner of the Wolfson Prize for History),Masters and Commanders(winner of the Emery Reves Award),The Storm of War(winner of the British Army Book Prize),Napoleon the Great(winner of the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoléon and theLos Angeles TimesBiography Prize), andGeorge III(winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography). Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, and a Trustee of the International Churchill Society. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies at King's College, London, and the Bonnie and Tom McCloskey Distinguished Visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His website is www.andrew-roberts.net.

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