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This compelling study by retired US Army Lt. Col. Michael Lee Lanning lists the hundred most influential military leaders—not by their victories, their combat prowess, or even their legacies, but by the lasting impact their lives had upon the world, the lives they affected, and the historical significance of their actions in war. Warriors from every era and corner of the globe are profiled, glorious and notorious, modern and ancient, good and evil, including:
George Washington * Attila the Hun * Adolf Hitler * Napoleon I * Hannibal * Alexander the Great * H. Norman Schwarzkopf * Genghis Khan * George S. Patton * Sun Tzu * Oliver Cromwell * Fidel Castro * Ferdinand Foch * Moshe Dayan * Mustafa Kemal * and many more!
"Every reader will find at least one nonfavorite among the top 100 and the 50 honorable mentions and at least one favorite left out. But as an intelligent soldier-historian's roster of the movers and shakers of warfare, this book itself ranks high." —Booklist
"The selected 100 span 15 centuries of warfare, from Attila the Hun (#15) to Norman Schwarzkopf (#49) and include both heroes and villains, innovators and heretics . . . This is a grand list, filled with the famous and infamous and even some obscure men like Lennart Torstensson and Thomas Cochrane. As a clever approach to military history, this is recommended for the general reader." —Library Journal
Illustrated with photos and portraits
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- Release date: September 27, 2012
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- ISBN: 9780806536590
- Release date: September 27, 2012
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- ISBN: 9780806536590
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- Release date: September 27, 2012
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