Article: The Swordbearers: Supreme Command in the First World War.(MR Classics Revisited)(Book review)

THE SWORDBEARERS: Supreme Command in the First World War

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Officers in positions of high-level command have often found their responsibilities to be a heavy and lonesome burden. Dwight Eisenhower, who knew a few things about such command, once told a newly commissioned officer, "Let me give you some good advice. Don't become a general. Don't ever become a general. If you become a general you just plain have too much to worry about." During the Second World War, Eisenhower had discovered from first-hand experience that the scope and intensity of those worries increase dramatically when a commander must lead the military forces of his ...

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