A staggering genius for command
A real Ulysses Grant,
a real Abraham Lincoln,
a real Dwight Eisenhower,
just to pluck a list of
Republican commanders,
from their thinning air.
What a bar room nancy
boy these lemmings have
followed to their ditch.
John Keegan
The Face of Battle
Jonathan Cape, 1976©
The Mask of Command
Viking, 1987©
Fields of Battle
The Wars for
North America
Alfred A. Knopf, 1996©
Max Hastings
Overlord
D-Day and the Battle
for Normandy
Harper Collins, 1984©
Armageddon
The Battle for
Germany, 1944-1945
Alfred A. Knopf, 2005©
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