Phillips Payson O'Brien
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Professor of Strategic Studies, @univofstandrews; Author of The Strategists (Summer 2024): https://t.co/l2PkpyDtDw
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Dec 2, 2024 |
penguin.co.uk | Phillips Payson O'Brien
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Aug 27, 2024 |
kirkusreviews.com | Phillips Payson O'Brien |Tom Clavin |Annette Gordon-Reed
Buffs of the Old West will enjoy Clavin’s careful research and vivid writing. Rootin’-tootin’ history of the dry-gulchers, horn-swogglers, and outright killers who populated the Wild West’s wildest city in the late 19th century. The stories of Wyatt Earp and company, the shootout at the O.K. Corral, and Geronimo and the Apache Wars are all well known.
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Aug 27, 2024 |
nyjournalofbooks.com | Phillips Payson O'Brien
“an important look at the personal side of how World War II strategy was made . . .”The apocryphal saying “militaries always prepare for the last war” can also be true of political leaders, especially if they have military experience in war before their rise to power. This is the thesis explored by Professor O’Brien in this new look at formation of grand strategy by the major powers in Europe during World War II.
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Aug 14, 2024 |
penguin.co.uk | Phillips Payson O'Brien
'Entirely fresh, brilliantly insightful and utterly compelling' James Holland'Full of fascinating insights about the use and misuse of power' Daniel Todman***Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.
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Aug 10, 2024 |
spectator.com.au | Phillips Payson O'Brien
Many of those around Franklin Roosevelt were puking their guts out – but he could not have been happier. It was July 1918 and Roosevelt was crossing the Atlantic on his way to Europe on an official trip as assistant secretary of the Navy. Apart from rather forlorn attempts to sleep while the USS Dyer bobbed up and down in the deep North Atlantic swell, Roosevelt revelled in everything he experienced.
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