The Lessons of War The Experiences of Seven Future Leaders in the First World War

by Kloot, William Van der

• ISBN13: 9781845886349
• ISBN10: 1845886348
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: Nonsuch

Summary

William Van der Kloot examines the experiences of seven future national leaders during the World War I. Adolf Hitler served on the Western Front for four years; Charles de Gaulle was bayoneted and captured at Verdun; Benito Mussolini was so badly wounded that he was discharged as a hero; Gustav Mannerheim was a cavalry commander who fought on the Eastern Front; Mustafa Kemal Ataturk commanded a division at the Battle of Gallipoli; Harold Macmillan was wounded at Loos and again at the Somme; and Herbert Hoover, although a civilian, organized humanitarian relief in German-occupied Europe, especially Belgium. Combining information gleaned from memoirs, diaries, biographies, and regimental histories, this book illustrates how these experiences formed them into the men remembered by history.

Author Biography

William Van der Kloot is a retired American biology professor now living in south England. He studied at Harvard and Cambridge universities and taught at Harvard, Cornell, NYU and Stony Brook, where he is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus. As well as numerous scientific works, he has previously written articles on the energy balance of the German people during the blockade of 1914 1919, weapons of mass destruction and the academic-industrial-military complex and the development of sound-ranging during World War I.

Table of Contents

Sarajevo to the opening battles	p. 9
Adolf Hitler: 28 June 1914	p. 9
Harold Macmillan: 28 June 1914	p. 9
July 1914	p. 10
Charles de Gaulle: 29 July to 4 August 1914	p. 12
Gustav Mannerheim: 29 July to 5 August 1914	p. 14
Adolf Hitler: 2 to 3 August 1914	p. 16
Harold Macmillan: August and September 1914	p. 17
Herbert Hoover: 4 August to 8 August 1914	p. 17
Charles de Gaulle: 4 August to 30 August 1914	p. 19
Gustav Mannerheim: August 1914	p. 23
Adolf Hitler: 16 August to 17 October 1914	p. 24
Benito Mussolini: 18 October to 15 November 1914	p. 26
Mustafa Kemal: August to November 1914	p. 27
Herbert Hoover: 10 August to 30 October 1914	p. 30
First Ypres to trench warfare	p. 33
Adolf Hitler: 21 October to 1 November 1914	p. 33
Harold Macmillan: October and December 1914	p. 42
Gustav Mannerheim: September to December 1914	p. 43
Herbert Hoover: 15 October through December 1914	p. 44
Adolf Hitler: December 1914	p. 49
Charles de Gaulle: October to December 1914	p. 51
Dardanelles to Neuve Chapelle	p. 53
Adolf Hitler: January and February 1915	p. 53
Mustapha Kemal: January to May 1915	p. 54
Benito Mussolini: January to May 1915	p. 62
Harold Macmillan: January to August 1915	p. 66
Charles de Gaulle: January to July 1915	p. 68
Adolf Hitler: March to May 1915	p. 69
Suvla Bay to Loos	p. 73
Mustapha Kemal: June to December 1915	p. 73
Mustapha Kemal: June to December 1915	p. 73
Harold Macmillan: September through December 1915	p. 79
Charles de Gaulle: June 1915 through February 1916	p. 85
Adolf Hitler: June through December 1915	p. 86
Benito Mussolini: May through December 1915	p. 87
Gustav Mannerheim: July through December 1915	p. 95
Herbert Hoover: July through December 1915	p. 97
Verdun to Brusilov's offensive	p. 100
Herbert Hoover: January to June 1916	p. 100
Charles de Gaulle: January to March 1916	p. 101
Mustapha Kemal: November 1915 to July 1916	p. 104
Harold Macmillan: January to June 1916	p. 105
Benito Mussolini: February to September 1916	p. 108
Adolf Hitler: January to June 1916	p. 111
Gustav Mannerheim: January to August 1916	p. 113
The Somme to the battle for Romania	p. 117
Harold Macmillan: July through December 1916	p. 117
Herbert Hoover: July to December 1916	p. 125
Adolf Hitler: July through December 1916	p. 126
Mustapha Kemal: August through December 1916	p. 130
Benito Mussolini: June through December 1916	p. 130
Charles de Gaulle: April through December 1916	p. 133
Gustav Mannerheim: September through December 1916	p. 135
The Russian Revolution to Passchendaele	p. 137
Gustav Mannerheim: January to April 1917	p. 137
Herbert Hoover: January to September 1917	p. 139
Benito Mussolini: January to May 1917	p. 140
Charles de Gaulle: January to May 1917	p. 142
Mustapha Kemal: January to September 1917	p. 143
Harold Macmillan: January to April 1917	p. 145
Adolf Hitler: January to June 1917	p. 145
Charles de Gaulle: June through November 1917	p. 148
Mustapha Kemal: October through November 1917	p. 149
Harold Macmillan: May through December 1917	p. 150
Benito Mussolini: April through December 1917	p. 151
Herbert Hoover: August through December 1917	p. 155
Adolf Hitler: July through December 1917	p. 156
Gustav Mannerheim: July through November 1917	p. 158
The Finnish Civil War to the Armistices	p. 161
Gustav Mannerheim: December 1917 to April 1918	p. 161
Harold Macmillan: 1918	p. 164
Benito Mussolini: January to June 1918	p. 164
Charles de Gaulle: December 1917 to July 1918	p. 166
Mustapha Kemal: December 1917 to August 1918	p. 167
Adolf Hitler: 1918	p. 168
Benito Mussolini: September through December 1918	p. 176
Charles de Gaulle: July to December 1918	p. 177
Mustapha Kemal: September to December 1918	p. 181
Herbert Hoover: July through December 1918	p. 183
Gustav Mannerheim: May through December 1918	p. 186
1919 and beyond	p. 188
Herbert Hoover	p. 188
Mustapha Kemal Ataturk	p. 195
Benito Mussolini	p. 200
Adolf Hitler	p. 203
Gustav Mannerheim	p. 207
Charles de Gaulle	p. 208
Harold Macmillan	p. 210
Acknowledgements	p. 213
Selected Bibliography	p. 214
Index	p. 220
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