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Soldier, the Builder & the Diplomat

Soldier, the Builder & the Diplomat

Custer, the Titanic & World War One

by Steven Schlesser
Hardback
Publication Date: 20/01/2006

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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 leaders from both countries. One shudders to think where such a mentality will take us in a nuclear age. Schlesser's readable study is more than entertainment or scholarship, it is a plea for balance, probity, and reason in an era when a single fit of arrogance by a world leader can devastate hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings and imperil the very project of civilised human existence on this planet. It's difficult to overstate the importance of this unassuming book. Essays on the problem of pride and avoidable failure.
ISBN:
9781885942074
9781885942074
Category:
General & world history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
20-01-2006
Publisher:
Cune Press,US
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
155x230x19mm
Weight:
0.44kg

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