Captain Professor
Autor Michael Howarden Limba Engleză Hardback – aug 2006
Descoperim în Captain Professor nu doar parcursul cronologic al unui istoric de renume, ci o mărturie vie despre cum experiența directă a frontului modelează rigoarea academică. Bazându-se pe amintiri personale ce traversează decenii de istorie europeană, Professor Sir Michael Howard ne invită într-o călătorie ce începe în tranșeele Italiei și se încheie în amfiteatrele de la Oxford. Structura volumului este o oglindă a dualității vieții autorului. Prima parte, „Captain”, reconstituie campaniile din Salerno, Napoli și Florența. Găsim aici detalii inedite despre camaraderie, unde Howard i-a avut alături pe viitorul regizor Franco Zeffirelli sau pe criticul Richard Buckle, oferind războiului o dimensiune umană surprinzătoare. A doua parte, „Professor”, documentează ascensiunea sa în lumea ideilor, de la fondarea studiilor de strategie la influențarea politicilor de apărare în cercurile guvernamentale de la Whitehall. Narativul amintește de Troublemaker de Kathleen Burk prin intensitatea cu care reconstituie o epocă și prin modul în care analizează personalitățile academice ale timpului, precum Trevor-Roper sau A.L. Rowse, cu un amestec de spirit ludic și observație ascuțită. Spre deosebire de o colecție de studii precum War, Strategy, and International Politics, care analizează teoria militară din exterior, memoriile lui Howard au un ton intim și elegant. Autorul scrie cu o onestitate rară, recunoscând cu umor că numirea sa ca Regius Professor s-ar fi datorat faptului că era singurul candidat de care Regina auzise. Este o lectură fluidă, care transformă istoria militară într-o narațiune despre vocație și adaptabilitate.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780826491251
ISBN-10: 0826491251
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 12
Dimensiuni: 238 x 164 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Continnuum-3pl
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0826491251
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 12
Dimensiuni: 238 x 164 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Continnuum-3pl
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Descriere
Not since A.L. Rowse published his memoir On Historians has such a witty and perceptive memoir been published by a celebrated historian.
Captain Professor constitutes the memoir of one of the most distinguised British historians of the post war years, Professor Sir Michael Howard. Award the Military Cross in the Second World War, Howard recounts how between battles he befriended the young film director Franco Zefirelli, and fought the Germans in Italy with (the future Bishop) Simon Phipps and the (future) ballet critic Richard Buckle. In Oxford after the war, he gives delicious insights into academic life, including perceptive portraits of Hugh Trevor-Roper, Keith Thomas and A.L. Rowse.
Howard had a major influence on the strategic and defence policy of the country and made his name as a military historian. His influence on the study of history in schools and universities has been considerable, and he has been substantially responsible for the burgeoning of First World War studies, its history and its literature. He claims, however, that he eventually pipped many more obvious candidates to the post to become the royally-appointed Regius Professor of History because he was the only candidate that the Queen of England had heard of.
Captain Professor constitutes the memoir of one of the most distinguised British historians of the post war years, Professor Sir Michael Howard. Award the Military Cross in the Second World War, Howard recounts how between battles he befriended the young film director Franco Zefirelli, and fought the Germans in Italy with (the future Bishop) Simon Phipps and the (future) ballet critic Richard Buckle. In Oxford after the war, he gives delicious insights into academic life, including perceptive portraits of Hugh Trevor-Roper, Keith Thomas and A.L. Rowse.
Howard had a major influence on the strategic and defence policy of the country and made his name as a military historian. His influence on the study of history in schools and universities has been considerable, and he has been substantially responsible for the burgeoning of First World War studies, its history and its literature. He claims, however, that he eventually pipped many more obvious candidates to the post to become the royally-appointed Regius Professor of History because he was the only candidate that the Queen of England had heard of.
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Prologue: Family
Part 1: Captain
1. Prewar
2. Wartime
3. Italy I: Salerno
4. Italy II: Naples to Florence
5. Italy III: Florence to Trieste
Part 2: Professor
6. Peacetime
7. War Studies
8. Strategic Studies
9. The USA
10. Whitehall
11. Oxford
12 Fin de Siecle
Foreword
Prologue: Family
Part 1: Captain
1. Prewar
2. Wartime
3. Italy I: Salerno
4. Italy II: Naples to Florence
5. Italy III: Florence to Trieste
Part 2: Professor
6. Peacetime
7. War Studies
8. Strategic Studies
9. The USA
10. Whitehall
11. Oxford
12 Fin de Siecle
Recenzii
"a fascinating memoir"
"Military Education is in a sad state, and Michael Howard's memoir, Captain Professor: A Life in War and Peace, stands as a reminder of how far it has fallen. No student of the military art should leave this book unread. Michael Howard is an excellent military historian. In one school or another, every Army officer has encountered his translation of Clausewitz's On War, his contribution on World War I in Peter Parot and Gordon Craig's classic Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (which includes an essay on Soviet strategy by a young scholar named Condoleezza Rice) or his seminal War in European History. There are few Michael Howards left, and it is not clear that there is a generation following the great scholars of the Cold War to replace them. Nor is it clear that civilian universities or the Pentagon are doing much to address this shortfall. Soldiers and students should read Howard's Captain Professor. They will do so wistfully, regretting that they may never have a mentor of his equal."
"[Howard] belongs to a long line of British military historians, such as John Wheeler-Bennett, who have drawn on their deep historical knowledge to expound upon contemporary politics in vivid and forceful prose that is almost impossible to read without mounting excitement. In Captain Professor, Howard blends his personal history with world events to provide a delightfully informal and disarming account. He begins with his privileged childhood before turning to his years in British boarding schools. His descriptions of the combat he experienced during the Italian campaign in the Second World War are seldom less than gripping. Scarcely less robust than the real thing, his accounts of academic warfare are, more often than not, mordantly entertaining...In recalling his own past, Howard offers important lessons for the present." --National Interest Online
"Howard blends his personal history with world events to provide a delightfully informal and disarming account...In recalling his own past, Howard offers important lessons for the present." Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn, November 2007
"As can be guaranteed from Howard's pen we are treated to plenty to think about and to appreciate, both in content and style." Reviewed by Alistair Irwin in The British Army Review
Review in British Scholar.
"Sir Michael Howard's vivid and most interesting memoirs will give pleasure to many. Well recommended." The Guards Magazine, 1 August 2008
'he [Michael Howard] is such a brilliant writer, succinct, exact, candid, without the least degree of conceit or artificiality, he commands the readers confidence and sympathy without ever embarrassing him. He never tells us too much or suppresses anything that night be held to discredit him. He is generous to others, but not indiscriminately, and, where he cares to, he is a skillful portraitist.... ...The book is a true product of the Age if Enlightenment and to be applauded for challenging the unreason and the violence to which feebler minds and a less-educated understanding of history so easily succumb. it is beautifully written, amusing and perceptive, perhaps from its unusual angle the best interpretation of our terrifying times.' ~ Richard Ollard, 'Under the Influence of Mars', The Spectator, July 2006
Interview on Michael Howard. 'Captain Professor is an admirable slice of life: likeable, interesting and well written.' Jeremy Lewis, Sunday Times, 16 July 2006
"All the qualities of powerful exposition, extraordinary insight and concision that adorn Howard's other books can be found in this, possibly his last book, as well as a haunting elegiac tone. But Michael Howard might still feel the urge to write. Let us hope so."
"Military Education is in a sad state, and Michael Howard's memoir, Captain Professor: A Life in War and Peace, stands as a reminder of how far it has fallen. No student of the military art should leave this book unread. Michael Howard is an excellent military historian. In one school or another, every Army officer has encountered his translation of Clausewitz's On War, his contribution on World War I in Peter Parot and Gordon Craig's classic Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (which includes an essay on Soviet strategy by a young scholar named Condoleezza Rice) or his seminal War in European History. There are few Michael Howards left, and it is not clear that there is a generation following the great scholars of the Cold War to replace them. Nor is it clear that civilian universities or the Pentagon are doing much to address this shortfall. Soldiers and students should read Howard's Captain Professor. They will do so wistfully, regretting that they may never have a mentor of his equal."
"[Howard] belongs to a long line of British military historians, such as John Wheeler-Bennett, who have drawn on their deep historical knowledge to expound upon contemporary politics in vivid and forceful prose that is almost impossible to read without mounting excitement. In Captain Professor, Howard blends his personal history with world events to provide a delightfully informal and disarming account. He begins with his privileged childhood before turning to his years in British boarding schools. His descriptions of the combat he experienced during the Italian campaign in the Second World War are seldom less than gripping. Scarcely less robust than the real thing, his accounts of academic warfare are, more often than not, mordantly entertaining...In recalling his own past, Howard offers important lessons for the present." --National Interest Online
"Howard blends his personal history with world events to provide a delightfully informal and disarming account...In recalling his own past, Howard offers important lessons for the present." Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn, November 2007
"As can be guaranteed from Howard's pen we are treated to plenty to think about and to appreciate, both in content and style." Reviewed by Alistair Irwin in The British Army Review
Review in British Scholar.
"Sir Michael Howard's vivid and most interesting memoirs will give pleasure to many. Well recommended." The Guards Magazine, 1 August 2008
'he [Michael Howard] is such a brilliant writer, succinct, exact, candid, without the least degree of conceit or artificiality, he commands the readers confidence and sympathy without ever embarrassing him. He never tells us too much or suppresses anything that night be held to discredit him. He is generous to others, but not indiscriminately, and, where he cares to, he is a skillful portraitist.... ...The book is a true product of the Age if Enlightenment and to be applauded for challenging the unreason and the violence to which feebler minds and a less-educated understanding of history so easily succumb. it is beautifully written, amusing and perceptive, perhaps from its unusual angle the best interpretation of our terrifying times.' ~ Richard Ollard, 'Under the Influence of Mars', The Spectator, July 2006
Interview on Michael Howard. 'Captain Professor is an admirable slice of life: likeable, interesting and well written.' Jeremy Lewis, Sunday Times, 16 July 2006
"All the qualities of powerful exposition, extraordinary insight and concision that adorn Howard's other books can be found in this, possibly his last book, as well as a haunting elegiac tone. But Michael Howard might still feel the urge to write. Let us hope so."
Notă biografică
The author is a solicitor and legal English lecturer from London. After many years of legal practice he decided to travel around Europe and the Middle East lecturing law and teaching legal English. His travels took him to Poland, Germany, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and finally back to the UK where he was invited to teach legal English to foreign lawyers and law students at courses run at Cambridge University. Michael now works in legal publishing and spends his free time writing legal English dictionaries and exercise books to help foreign lawyers improve their legal English.
Descriere scurtă
Michael Howard's ancestry, part Quaker, part German Jew, made him unpromising material for a commission in the Brigade of Guards. The three years he spent with his regiment were equally inappropriate perparation for the university chairs that he went on to hold at London, Oxford and Yale. In this autobiography he describes how these varied strands in his life came together. First there was a childhood in a world of privilege almost as remote from today as is that of the Roman Antonines. Then there came war service in Italy, a mixture of terror, tedium and Lucullan enjoyment. Finally, he was to persue an academic career in which he would pioneer the study both of war as an aspect of 'total history' and of international relations in the nuclear age. In addition to holding the Regius Chair of Modern History at Oxford he was to play a leading role in founding both the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the world-famous Department of War Studies at King's College London. His works (some translated into sizxteen languages) have him the Duff Cooper Prize,the Wolfson History Prize and the Chesney Gold Medal of the Royal United Services Institute. He ended up as a Fellow of the British Academy, a Companion of Honour and a member of the Order of Merit. So the discordant elements in his background and experience eventually harmonized very well. Professor Sir Michael Howard was Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford and Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. Amongst his most celebrated books are The Franco-Prussian War, War in European History and The Invention of Peace.