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30%OFFSteven Schlesser - The Soldier, the Builder and the Diplomat - 9781885942067 - V9781885942067
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The Soldier, the Builder and the Diplomat

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Description for The Soldier, the Builder and the Diplomat Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; HBG; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
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
Paperback
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
9781885942067
SKU
V9781885942067
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Ref
99-48

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