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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Mavericks of war
    sub title: the unconventional, unorthodox innovators and thinkers, scholars, and outsiders who mastered the art of warfare
  name:
    name part: Ridler, Jason S.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 331 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Introduction: Leachman's ghost -- Part 1. Mavericks of the Great War -- "Those Who Dream in Daylight": T.E. Lawrence and the impact of a maverick of war -- "The lone and hopeless struggle": Wilhelm Wassmuss and the German experiment in Islamic insurgencies, 1914-1918 Part 2. Global war on ignorance & the Axis: The Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services -- "Dishonest adventurers": Monty Woodhouse and the SOE in Greece during the Second World War -- "Despite the handicap of her sex": Cora Du Bois, OSS Research and Analysis Chief in South East Asia, 1943-1945 -- Part 3. Mavericks of Vietnam -- Expert in exile: Bernard Fall and speaking truth to Power in Vietnam -- The ad man and the wolf: The victories and defeats of Edward Lansdale and Charles Bohannon in Southeast Asia, 1945-1968 -- Part 4. Mavericks after Vietnam -- Prelude: Gertrude Bell and war in "a devil's cauldron"--Warlords, commanders, and the truth: Sarah Chayes in Afghanistan, 2002-2010 -- British pacifist vs. American pride: Emma Sky in Iraq, 2003-2010.
  abstract: Profiles the intellectuals, outsiders, and eccentrics who shaped battlefields from World War II and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan.
  note: Jason S. Ridler.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Military art and science
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Military biography
  classification: U102 .R54 2018
  classification: 355.0092/2
  identifier: 9780811719865
  identifier: 0811719863
  identifier: 2017055079
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180305
    record change date: 20181023093244.0
    record identifier: in00004001043