Marlborough / Corelli Barnett.

By:

Barnett, Correlli

Material type:

TextSeries: Wordsworth military libraryPublication details: Ware : Wordsworth Editions, 1999.Description: 288 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cmISBN:

184022200X
9781840222005

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Military history

LOC classification:

DA462.M3 B26

Contents:

The parting by the water's side -- The suspicions of the Dutch -- So little service -- Founding a family -- I love you so truly well -- The long march -- Blenheim -- Anne and Sarah -- See what a happy man he is -- The great glorious success -- A back way to the queen's closet -- The instrument of so much happiness -- A very murdering battle -- The malice of a bedchamber women -- The greatest captain of the age.

Summary: "The emphasis of the narrative lies throughout on the character and personality of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, rather than on the general historical events of his life. The course of Marlborough's war leadership is narrated with clarity, colour, pace and immediacy, rendering Marlborough's talents and achievements explicable in terms of the military art of his time"--Page 4 of cover

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Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	Books	Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College General stacks		Reference		DA462.M3 B26 (Browse shelf(Opens below))				C.1	Available			2024-3853

Originally published: London : Eyre Methuen, 1974.

Includes bibliographical references (page 279) and index.

"The emphasis of the narrative lies throughout on the character and personality of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, rather than on the general historical events of his life. The course of Marlborough's war leadership is narrated with clarity, colour, pace and immediacy, rendering Marlborough's talents and achievements explicable in terms of the military art of his time"--Page 4 of cover

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