Mavericks of War
The Unconventional, Unorthodox Innovators and Thinkers, Scholars, and Outsiders Who Mastered the Art of War
During World War I, Oxford-trained archeologist Lawrence of Arabia used his knowledge of the Middle East to help organize the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. In this entertaining and insightful book, Jason Ridler profiles the intellectuals, outsiders, and eccentrics who followed in Lawrence's footsteps across the next hundred years of warfare and who relied on creativity, curiosity, and outside-the-box thinking to shape battlefields from World War II and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. They were Ivy Leaguers and Oxford scholars, anthropologists and archeologists, an ad executive, an international activist, a Peace Corps veteran, an é…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8117-6776-7
- EAN: 9780811767767
- Produktnummer: 27662385
- Verlag: Stackpole Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'061 KB
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