Masters of Warfare (Hardback)
Fifty Underrated Military Commanders from Classical Antiquity to the Cold War
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
Pages: 336
Illustrations: 50 b/w
ISBN: 9781399070126
Published: 11th November 2022
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In Masters of Warfare, Eric G. L. Pinzelli presents a selection of fifty commanders whose military achievements, skill or historical impact he believes to be underrated by modern opinion. He specifically does not include the household names (the ‘Gods of War’ as he calls them) such as Alexander, Julius Caesar, Wellington, Napoléon, Rommel or Patton that have been covered in countless biographies.
Those chosen come from every period of recorded military history from the sixth century BC to the Vietnam War. The selection rectifies the European/US bias of many such surveys with Asian entries such as Bai Qi (Chinese), Attila (Hunnic), Subotai (Mongol), Ieyasu Tokugawa (Japanese) and Võ Nguyên Giáp (Vietnamese). Naval commanders are also represented by the likes of Khayr al-Dīn Barbarossa, Francis Drake and Michiel de Ruyter.
These 50 “Masters of War” are presented in a chronological order easy to follow, with a concise overview of their life and career. Altogether they present a fascinating survey of the developments and continuities in the art of command, but most importantly their contribution to the evolution of weaponry, tactic and strategy through the ages.
There is a good mix of leaders the reader may have heard of but knows little about, alongside those who are almost unknown today.
Military Heritage
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Povijest ratovanja (History of Warfare) Magazine
Highlight: 'We believe that within the framework he set for this work, Eric G. L. Pinzelli completely succeeded and provided an extremely valuable and useful book, and for the same reasons we hope that in this case the English original will also find its way to the shelves of Croatian bookstores in our own translation.'
These profiles, whether of a genuinely overlooked commander or more familiar ones are quite good. We get an excellent thumbnail sketch of their background, careers, influence, even writings, plus some useful references.
The NYMAS Review
4 out of 5 Stars
Army Rumour Service (ARRSE)
It is a great reference book, with enough detail to sate the armchair reader. It will provide fresh ideas for anyone needing an original take on leadership studies, and it will hopefully act as a gateway to deeper reading into some of history's deserving, yet under-appreciated, military leaders.
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Overall, the book offers a fascinating survey of the development and continuity in the art of command, as well as the evolution of weaponry, tactics, and strategy throughout history.
Medieval Sword School
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A really good book, one for the military enthusiasts.
The History Fella
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About Dr Eric G L Pinzelli
Eric G L Pinzelli was raised in the wilds of Western Canada then attended the University of Provence. He is fluent in English, French, Portuguese and Italian and was trained in Intercomprehension by the now defunct Latin Union while working for the Alliance française in Brazilian Amazonia. He served in the French Marines in the early 1990s. Military history, geopolitics and archaeology are his main passions. In 1998 he was given the Military History Award as the best Military research work of the year in French Language and in 2003 he completed his PhD. Student of the late Daniel Panzac, he specialized in 17th - 18th centuries military history, in particular naval and siege warfare and the epic conflicts opposing the Ottoman Empire against Venice, Austria, the Papacy, Poland and Russia.
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