Dwight David Eisenhower proudly claimed that he came from the very heart of America.” Yet it could be argued that, despite those provincial beginnings, no other American exerted more influence on worl
Everyone knows that Heinz Guderian (1888-1954) was the father of the German armored force and brilliant practitioner of Blitzkrieg maneuver warfare, but Hart (history, Hawaii Pacific U.) points out th
Though dismissed from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1861, William Barker Cushing soon rejoined the service and transformed himself from a renowned rabble-rouser into a living legend who embodied the speci
Few figures in modern French history have aroused more controversy than Marshal Philippe Petain, who rose from obscurity to great fame in the First World War only to fall into infamy during the dark d
Ferdinand Foch is the prototype of the twentieth-century general. Better than any other general of the First World War, he came to understand how technology and modern alliance systems had changed the
