Masters of Warfare and Diplomacy: The 10 Greatest Strategists in History
Historical Portraits of Commanders, Statesmen, and the Art of StrategyBy Woodrow Wilson, Jacob Abbott, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, William Milligan Sloane, Joseph Moyle Sherer, John Torrey Morse, Alfred von Reumont, George Hesekiel
Length186h 39m
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Masters of Warfare and Diplomacy surveys strategy as both battlefield command and political statecraft, assembling biographical-historical studies of figures whose decisions redirected states, empires, and wars. Its essays move among narrative history, military analysis, diplomatic portraiture, and moral-political reflection, presenting strategy as an art shaped by institutions, temperament, geography, and contingency. Dramatic campaigns and negotiations alike become occasions for examining power's practical and ethical limits. Drawn from historians, classicists, biographers, public intellectuals, and European cultural commentators, the contributors bring distinct national traditions and interpretive sensibilities to a shared inquiry into leadership. Their perspectives reflect nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century historical writing, when biography offered a means of studying character, nationhood, and political judgment. Read together, these voices place ancient and modern examples in productive relation, revealing how ideals of command, civic responsibility, and diplomacy have informed accounts of historical greatness. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking a comparative introduction to strategic thought through vivid historical lives. Its varied approaches invite reflection on warfare's political purposes, diplomacy's constraints, and the contested meaning of greatness, while fostering a fruitful dialogue among distinct historical methods and perspectives.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length186 hrs 39 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Some Principles of Maritime Strategy (Annotated)
2Alexander the Great
3PREFACE.
4Chapter III.
5Chapter IV.
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6Chapter VI.
7Chapter VIII.
8Chapter IX.
9Chapter XI.
10Hannibal
11PREFACE
12Chapter III.
13Chapter V.
14Chapter VI.
15Chapter VIII.
16Chapter X.
17Chapter XI.
18Footnote
19Julius Caesar
20PREFACE.
21CHAPTER IV.
22CHAPTER VI.
23CHAPTER IX.
24CHAPTER XII.
25Augustus
26CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH, B.C. 63-44
27CHAPTER II THE ROMAN EMPIRE AT THE DEATH OF IULIUS CÆSAR
28CHAPTER III THE INHERITANCE
29CHAPTER IV THE CONSULSHIP AND TRIUMVIRATE
30CHAPTER V PHILIPPI
31CHAPTER VI PERUSIA AND SICILY
32CHAPTER VII ACTIUM
33CHAPTER VIII THE NEW CONSTITUTION, B.C. 30-23
34CHAPTER IX THE FIRST PRINCIPATUS, B.C. 27-23
35CHAPTER X THE IMPERIAL AND MILITARY POLICY OF AUGUSTUS
36CHAPTER XI AUGUSTUS AND HIS WORSHIPPERS
37CHAPTER XII THE REFORMER AND LEGISLATOR
38CHAPTER XIII LATER LIFE AND FAMILY TROUBLES
39CHAPTER XIV THE LAST DAYS
40CHAPTER XV THE EMPEROR AUGUSTUS, HIS CHARACTER AND AIMS, HIS WORK AND FRIENDS
41AUGUSTUS’S ACCOUNT OF HIS REIGN (FROM THE INSCRIPTION IN THE TEMPLE OF ROME AND AUGUSTUS AT ANGORA)
42Footnote
43Napoleon Bonaparte
44Volume 1
45PREFACE TO THE LIBRARY EDITION
46PREFACE
47CHAPTER I.
48CHAPTER II.
49CHAPTER III.
50CHAPTER IV.
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