Churchill and Hitler: Essays on the Political-Military Direction of Total War

ISBN-13: 9780714641195 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 336 str.

David Jablonsky

Opis

This collection of essays examines the development of Churchill and Hitler as strategic leaders and analyzes in particular the impact of their formative years on their leadership styles, operational codes, views on civil-military relations, and approaches to the conduct of war at strategic, operational and tactical levels. Ultimately, victory depended on the calculated use of all the means of national power - military, political, psychological and economic - to achieve the national end. These essays demonstrate that it was Churchill who best understood that calculation.

Spis treści

Introduction - the Clausewitzian trinity; Churchll - the making of a grand strategist; the paradox of duality - Adolf Hitler and the concept of military surprise; Churchill - the Victorian man of action; strategic reality is not enough - hitler and the concept of crazy states; landmarks in defence literature - The World Crisis, The Unknown War, The Aftermath, Marlborough, his Life and Times; Roehm and Hitler - the continuity of political-military discord.

O autorze

David Jablonsky