- Hardcover: 369 pages
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 1st edition (14 Sep 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0297816217
- ISBN-13: 978-0297816218
- Product Dimensions: 25 x 16.6 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,332,267 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Liddell Hart, no warrior, dwelt all his life on war. He obtained its waste, deplored its unreasonableness, but amended the classical dictum as one of his own-if you wish for peace understand war. Although his name is synonuymous w military thought and military controversy, throughout his life he appeared i succession of different guises. He was variously revered and reviled. He adv Lloyd George-among others-and antaginised Winston Churchill.
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A readable and interesting review of a compex man,
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This review is from: Alchemist of War: the life of Basil Liddell Hart (Hardcover)
Danchev has produced a enusiastic and well written biography of an interesting and complex figure. The book concentrates on the period before WWII when Liddell Hart was at his most obviously influential and has less to say about his influence after the war.His contribution to Israels war plans for example is not commented on. A good book nonetheless. You will enjoy it
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5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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This stork had STYLE!,
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This review is from: Alchemist of War: the life of Basil Liddell Hart (Hardcover)
Here I go reviewing another book that is not even for sale by Amazon (although there are a few used copies about). And yet I had to because this is one entertaining read about an equally entertaining subject.
First here is a word about the book. If you enjoy the use of arcane expressions (tergiversation is an examples), liberal use of French and Latin, and unexplained abbreviations (CIGS (Chief of the Imperial General Staff ) is an example) this book will entertain you mightily. I found myself storming my dictionary and the Internet for help with the vernacular. It had many colorful expressions like 'This stork had Style.' It made the read a great deal longer than I am used to for 250ish pages. I didn't mind it terribly because I enjoyed the book. I could have enjoyed it the same without the speculation about the lurid details of his failed marriage, his disappearance from his duties during a WW1 battle and desire to see his ladies attired 'just so'. Finally about BLH. He was a military historian and strategist that rose from the ashes of the Great War. He was an innovator (guilty of a bit of measurable theft). He wrote biographies of military leaders that had an ulterior purpose that lent to a biased rendering of the biography (see my review of Scipio Africanus). He had the ear of the highest levels of the British Military and a few devotees among the Nazi generals. He was a warrior that came to despise war. Later biographers implied that he was unwilling to recognize the "naked reality of evil" after he published flattering accounts of his meetings with Nazi generals. In that way he reminds me of current public figures that would treat organized terrorism as a law enforcement problem to be resolved judicially. |
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