Kate
More details about Command - our new series
September 21, 2009 12:00 AM
For those of you who wanted to know a bit more about our new COMMAND series I am pleased to say that it will launch in May and June 2010.
The four launch titles will be Napoleon Bonaparte, Erich von Manstein, George Patton, and Julius Caesar.
As well as looking at each of their military careers in detail, the books will also show how each commander overcame his more notable adversaries, and consider how history views their successes or failures today.
Brought to life through three unique pieces of artwork together with five detailed battle maps and dozens of photographs, these books will be far more than your standard biography but promise to give you a sneak peek into the first launch titles closer to the time!
COMMENTS
Aside from what has been said about Nap's mythology elsewhere (and we could add Caesar's as the main source is the man himself), I wonder if this series might bring lesser-known commanders to the wider public - sucha s Prince Eugen of Savoy, whom Marlborough managed to get airbrushed from history in the English-speaking world?
Of course, a series should launch with a few well-knowns, and an intro book on N as military commander could do well (normally you feel obliged to commend Chandler: Campaigns of N with its 1100+ pp. However, the names, whose details are not welll-known should actually sell better.
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