The Warlords

Michael Carver

Pen and Sword, Sep 30, 2005 - History - 624 pages

In THE WAR LORDS, Field Marshal Lord Carver has assembled an engrossing series of short, detailed biographies of forty-three of the dominant military commanders of the twentieth century century, American, British, German and French: Field-Marshal the Earl Alexander, E.H.H. Allenby, Claude Auchinleck, Field-Marshal Sir, Omar N. Bradley, General of the Army, Andrew Browne Cunningham, Admiral of the Fleet the Viscount, Karl Doenitz, Admiral, Hugh C.T. Dowding, Air Chief Marshal, Dwight D. Eisenhower, General of the Army, Ferdinand Foch, Bernard Freyberg, Lieutenant-General Lord, Heinz Guderian, General, Douglas Haig, William F. Halsey, Fleet Admiral, Ian Hamilton, Arthur Harris, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir, Paul von Hindenburg, John Rushworth Jellicoe, Joseph Joffre, Alphonse Juin, Marshal, Mustafa Kemal, Ivan Koniev, Marshal, Erich Ludendorff, Douglas C. MacArthur, General of the Army, John Monash, Bernard L. Montgomery, of Alamein, Louis Mountbatten, Earl of Burma, Chester W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral, George S. Patton, General, John J. Pershing, Philippe Petain, Erwin Rommel, Field-Marshal, William Joseph Slim, Field-Marshal the Viscount, Carl A. Spaatz, General, Raymond A. Spruance, Admiral, Joseph W. Stilwell, General, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder, Hugh Trenchard, Erich Von Falkenhayn, Erich Von Manstein, Field Marshal, Gerd Von Rundstedt, Field-Marshal, Archibald Wavell, Field Marshall Earl, Isoroku Yamamoto, Admiral & Georgii Zhukov, Marshal.

Contents

• JELLICOE A TemplePatterson: 1
• JOFFRE General André Beaufre: 13
• HAIG John Terraine: 23
• HINDENBURG Norman Stone: 44
• PETAIN Alistair Horne: 55
• LUDENDORFF Norman Stone: 73
• HAMILTON Robert Rhodes James: 84
• KEMAL Lord Kinross: 94
• VON FALKENHAYN Alistair Horne: 109
• FOCH General André Beaufre: 122
• MONASH Malcolm Falkus: 134
• ALLENBY Major General Anthony FarrarHackley: 144
• PERSHING Donald Smythe: 160
• TRENCHARD Gavin Lyall: 176
• VON RUNDSTEDT Andreas Hillgruber: 188
• DOWDING Gavin Lyall: 202
• WAVELL Bernard Fergusson: 213
• VON MANSTEIN Albert Seaton: 231
• ZHUKOV John Erickson: 244
• AUCHINLECK Correlli Barnett: 260
• ROMMEL Charles DouglasHome: 274
• KONIEV John Erickson: 285
• GUDERIAN John Strawson: 298
• HARRIS Martin Middlebrook: 316
• ALEXANDER Nigel Nicolson: 332
• STILWELL Riley Sunderland: 342
• MOUNTBATTEN Vice Admiral Sir Ronald Brockman: 357
• SLIM Lieutenant General Sir Geoffrey Evans: 375
• YAMAMOTO Captain Roger Pineau: 390
• NIMITZ Henry H Adams: 404
• MACARTHUR Stephen E Ambrose: 419
• HALSEY James Bassett: 431
• SPRUANCE Henry H Adams: 447
• CUNNINGHAM LieutenantCommander Peter Kemp: 461
• DOENITZ LieutenantCommander Peter Kemp: 472
• TEDDER Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley Norris: 485
• MONTGOMERY Ronald Lewin: 500
• EISENHOWER Don Cook: 509
• BRADLEY Forrest C Pogue: 538
• PATTON Martin Blumenson: 554
• SPAATZ Alfred Goldberg: 568
• FREYBERG Dan Davin: 582
• JUIN Colonel Adolphe Goutard: 596
• INDEX: 612

About the author

Field Marshal Lord Carver served in Italy in 1943 as a 28-year old lieutenant colonel in command of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment. He held important command and staff appointments as Chief of General Staff and, as Field Marshal in 1973, Chief of the Defence Staff. Author of fourteen books and editor of two others, he was created a life peer in 1977. Lord Carver died in 2002.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Warlords; Military Classics Series; Issue 61 of Pen & Sword military classics
• Author: Michael Carver
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Pen and Sword, 2005
• ISBN: 1844153088, 9781844153084
• Length: 624 pages
• Subjects: History / Military / World War II