The swordbearers
Subtitle: supreme command in the First World War
By: Correlli Barnett.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Bloomington; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Description: The theme of this book is the decisive effect of individual human character on history. The background, in sharpest contrast, is a sudden and violent transition to mass collectivised life - to twentieth-century industry civilisation. The principal actors are four national commanders-in-chief: two German, one Frenchman, one Englishman. Theirs was the novel task of directing these new and terrifying forces of mass power in battle. Each had been born and bred in the last age; each belonged to a highly conservative profession. Their abilities and defects reflected and illustrated those of their countries.
Notes: Originally published, New York: William Morrow, 1964.