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On War and Leadership : The Words of Combat Commanders from Frederick the Great to Norman Schwarzkopf /

What can we learn about leadership and the experience of war from the best combat leaders the world has ever known? This book takes us behind the scenes and to the front lines of the major wars of the past 250 years through the words of twenty combat commanders. What they have to say--which is remar...

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Autor principal: Connelly, Owen, 1924-2011
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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