| In the School of War Contributor(s): Spiller, Roger J. (Author), Shy, John W. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0803228163 ISBN-13: 9780803228160 Publisher: Bison Books OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - General - History | Essays |
| Dewey: 355.020 |
| LCCN: 2009045142 |
| Series: Studies in War, Society, and the Military (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (1.10 lbs) 428 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fort Leavenworth, where Roger J. Spiller taught the army's finest for twenty-five years, is indeed a "school of war." There, among military professionals who had experienced war firsthand, Spiller honed his remarkable skills as an analyst and historian, scholar and teacher--skills that have made him one of the best-known and respected military historians of our day. This volume brings together Spiller's original and thought-provoking explorations of wars big and small and armies glorified and ignored. For each of these essays--whether on urban warfare or the Vietnam syndrome, battlefield psychology or the making of military history, and underrated vs. overrated generals--Spiller revisits his topic and his thinking, bringing fresh insight and a new context to an incomparable body of work. In the School of War further reveals the complex relationship between past and present in an understanding of the nature of war. |