Mavericks of War: The Unconventional, Unorthodox Innovators and Thinkers, Scholars, and Outsiders Who Mastered the Art of War
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During World War I, Oxford-trained archaeologist Lawrence of Arabia used his knowledge of the Middle East to help organize the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire. In this entertaining and insightful book, Jason Ridler profiles the intellectuals, outsiders, and eccentrics who followed in Lawrence's footsteps across the next hundred years of warfare and who relied on creativity, curiosity, and outside-the-box thinking to shape battlefields from World War II and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. They were Ivy Leaguers and Oxford scholars, anthropologists and archaeologists, an ad executive, an international activist, a Peace Corps veteran, an migr journalist (and former teenage member of the French Resistance), a diplomat--mavericks and oddballs, men and women--who, not always heralded or heeded and sometimes hated, challenged traditional military thought and helped win wars, secure peace, and change the face of modern war.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0811719863
ISBN13:9780811719865
Release Date:June 2018
Publisher:Stackpole Books
Length:344 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"
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