The Mask of Command

By John Keegan

Categories: History

Military historian John Keegan examines the nature of command through four leaders: Alexander the Great, the Duke of Wellington, Ulysses S. Grant and Adolf Hitler. He shows how each represented a different style of leadership, heroic, anti-heroic, unheroic and false heroic, shaped by the society and technology of his time. Keegan asks why men follow leaders into battle, and what the right kind of leadership is in an age of nuclear weapons.

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• Shane Parrish: “Through the lens of Alexander The Great, the Duke of Wellington, Ulysses S. Grant, and Adolf Hitler, this exceptional book that asks us to consider concepts like leadership, military leadership, and why people follow leaders. Keegan is an exceptional military historian”