This book discusses generals: who they are, what they do, and how they do it affects the world in which we live.

The author asserts that generalship is a cultural activity as well as an exercise in power or military skill and that it provides great insights into particular

Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to

John Keegan's groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle -- a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects of warfare The

Ross presents us with a vision of late Rome that is tense, exhilarating, complex and exotic... When a treacherous act of murder throws the western provinces int