People of the Book
'People of the Book is set in the Thirty Years' War, which began and still shapes our present system of world order. David Stacton's incomparable prose reveals how the treatises of scholars and the tactics of commanders so rarely comprehend the vagaries of the human condition. A book to put on the shelf with Thucydides' Peloponnesian War and Tolstoy's War and Peace.'Professor Charles Hill (author of Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order)'A troubling and fantastic book... Stacton sets up a duel plot. One follows the fortunes of the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus, the other recounts the fate of an orphaned boy and his little…
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- ISBN: 978-0-571-29620-0
- EAN: 9780571296200
- Produktnummer: 14482376
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 394 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 519 KB
- Auflage: Main
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David Stacton
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