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Soldier, the Builder and the Diplomat
Steven Schlesser
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Description for Soldier, the Builder and the Diplomat
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; HBG; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Contemporary readers, who wonder at the British and American knack for misguided adventure, will enjoy these three essays on Custer, the Titanic, and the onset of World War I. The book consists of rapier-like literary thrusts into the lives of General George Armstrong Custer, Thomas Andrews (the builder of the Titanic), and Edward Grey (British Foreign Secretary before World War I). However spectacular their failures, it's generally agreed that these men (or, in the case of Edward Grey, the men around them) could have avoided disaster except for arrogance -- a flaw that has long characterised the imperial ambition of ... Read more
Contemporary readers, who wonder at the British and American knack for misguided adventure, will enjoy these three essays on Custer, the Titanic, and the onset of World War I. The book consists of rapier-like literary thrusts into the lives of General George Armstrong Custer, Thomas Andrews (the builder of the Titanic), and Edward Grey (British Foreign Secretary before World War I). However spectacular their failures, it's generally agreed that these men (or, in the case of Edward Grey, the men around them) could have avoided disaster except for arrogance -- a flaw that has long characterised the imperial ambition of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cune Press,US United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Washington state, United States
ISBN
9781885942074
SKU
V9781885942074
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99-2
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