ASIN: B00EOPPU1Q
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 288
The story of Britain's greatest general...as told by Britain's greatest military historian. John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, was a man whose strategic genius and commanding personality transformed European history. In this remarkable book by the outstanding English military historian of his generation the individual behind the heroic victor of the Battle of Blenheim is bought vividly to life. In masterly detail, Correlli Barnett examines the forces that shaped the one European of the era able to challenge the glory of France's Sun King, and by so doing to deflect the course of history.The emphasis of the narrative is on the character and personality of John Churchill himself rather than on the general historical events of his life. By focusing on Marlborough's own reactions - to failure and success, to difficulty and disappointment, to the hazards of battle and political ...
