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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788948303321

Autore

Zabecki David T

Titolo

Chief of staff . Volume 1 Napoleonic wars to World War 1 : the principal officers behind history's great commanders / / David T. Zabecki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

1-61251-558-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

355.0092/2

Soggetti

Armed Forces - Officers

Command of troops

Generals

Leadership

Military history, Modern - 19th century

Military history, Modern - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Foreword by Professor Dennis Showalter; Introduction; Index of Great Commanders; Part One: The Nineteenth Century ; 1. Louis-Alexandre Berthier; 2. August Neithardt von Gneisenau; 3. Randolph B. Marcy; 4. John A. Rawlins; 5. Helmuth Carl Bernard Graf von Moltke; Part Two: World War I ; 6. Erich Ludendorff; 7. Carl Adolf Maximilian Hoffmann; 8. Hans von Seeckt; 9. Hermann von Kuhl; 10. Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf; 11. Fritz von Lossberg; 12. Maxime Weygand; 13. Launcelot Kiggell and Herbert Lawrence; 14. James Guthrie Harbord; Contributors; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The two-volume Chief of Staff examines the history, development, and role of the military duty position of the chief of staff. Many books have studied history's great commanders and the art of command. None have focused exclusively on the chief of staff -- that key staff officer responsible for translating the ideas of the commander into practical plans that common soldiers can execute successfully on the battlefield. In some cases, it is almost impossible to think of certain great commanders without also thinking of their chief of staff. Napoleon's



chief of staff Berthier and Eisenhower's chi