Essays in Honour of Sir Michael Howard
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Köp båda 2 för 2392 kr`Its substance ... is anything but shallow, and the majority of the contributors have written readable and persuasive essays which break new ground in their chosen subject areas.'
Brian Holden Reid, King's College, London, EHR April 1993
'the editors have assembled a sequence of essays which coherently reflects the interests of the scholar to whom they are dedicated ... It is good to know that military historians still pursue their traditional goal of seeking out the skeletons in the cupboard.'
London Review of Books
`This book has much to offer, because the diversity of the essays ensures that any specialist will be a general reader of most of them. The book's considerable attraction lies in its breadth of coverage, which is intentionally eclectic. The title of this volume is ambitious but it lives up to its promise ... The whole is considerably more than the sum of its parts, and represents a fitting tribute to Sir Michael Howard, who has contributed so much to both of the disciplines featured in this book.' Tim Benbow, Arts, Reviews, Ideas
'a neatly done job ... which is not unworthy of Michael Howard - a high enough compliment for any work on these subjects'
Times Literary Supplement
'There is much here for the peace-lover, internationalist, and international historian to ponder.'
Sally Marks, The International History Review, XV,2: May 1993
Hew Strachan, University of Glasgow, The Historical Association 1997 He has been the founding father of the serious study of both approaches to the study of war in the United Kingdom, and his influence has, through the quality of his prose and through the good sense and balance of his judgements, extended far beyond the universities.
All three editors are distinguished scholars who have published widely in the fields of military history and strategic studies.
War and the English in the reign of Henry VIII; an English country house at war - Littlecote and the Pophams; the continental commitment in the 18th century; "Cornwallis Triumphant" - War in India and the British Public in the late 18th century; parliamentary debate, economic vulnerability and British Naval expansion 1860-1905; Britain, Germany, and the Admiralty's plans for attacking German territory 1906-1915; Lord Kitchener and the Battle of Loos - French politics and British strategy in the summer of 1915; who knew what and when? The French Army mutinies and the British decision to launch the Third Battle of Ypres; "Hidden in the Rock" - American military perceptions of Great Britain 1919-1940; Alanbrooke and Britain's Mediterranean strategy 1942-1944; being friends - the combined chiefs of staff and the making of allied strategy in the Second World War; Britain and the Alliance; grand strategies and less than grand strategies - a 20th-century critique; continuity and change in Soviet strategic thought; problems of command in limited warfare - thoughts from Korea and Vietnam; strategic studies and the problem of power.