Conversations With Major Dick Winters - Life Lessons from the Commander of the Band of Brothers

Zusatztext “Colonel Cole Kingseed has captured the essence of a great military leader as only a soldier-historian can. Dick Winters was an extraordinary combat leader! and Kingseed’s extended conversations with him tell us why. Winters possessed a unique and powerful combination of humility! integrity! courage! compassion! resilience! and determination to win.”—Major General H. R. McMaster! USA! Commanding General! Fort Benning! Georgia and author of Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson! Robert McNamara! the Joint Chiefs of Staff! and the Lies That Led to Vietnam “Band of Brothers’s Major Dick Winters is arguably the most recognizable American hero to contemporary America in large measure because of Colonel Cole Kingseed’s scholarship. Conversations with Major Dick Winters takes the Dick Winters story to a new level and makes his legacy even more powerful! more personal! and more compelling to a whole new generation.”—Colonel (Ret.) Kevin Farrell! USA! former chief of military history! U.S. Military Academy at West Point and author of The Military and the Monarchy “Based on a personal relationship fostered and nurtured through years of conversations and directed reflection! Conversations with Major Dick Winters should be mandatory reading not just for military leaders but by anyone who wants to improve their leadership style by learning from a ‘master’ . . . Colonel Kingseed’s unparalleled personal relationship with Winters permits the rest of us to eavesdrop as a remarkable soldier recounts his understated leadership journey through war and peace.”—Brigadier General (Ret.) Frank H. Akers Jr. USA! president and CEO! Oak Ridge Strategies Group! Inc. “Are leaders born or made? The perceptions and the insights of Band of Brothers’s Major Dick Winters show that in a democracy! true leaders are cultivated. In the tradition of Lord Moran’s The Anatomy of Courage ! this is an anatomy of leadership! of courage! of discipline! and above all! of self-knowledge.”—Dennis Showalter! author o f Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century and Hitler’s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks That Revolutionized Warfare Informationen zum Autor Cole C. Kingseed is a thirty-year Army veteran who served in a variety of command and staff positions. He earned his MA in national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College and his PhD in history from Ohio State. He taught at West Point! where he served as chief of military history for four years. Kingseed is the author of fifty-three articles on corporate and military leadership and such books as Eisenhower and the Suez Crisis of 1956 and Old Glory Stories: Combat Leadership in World War II . He is a founding partner of Battlefield Leadership! LLC and president of his own leadership consulting firm! The Brecourt Leadership Experience! Inc.! whose clients include International Paper! Ernst & Young! USAA! and Bayer Corporation! among others.   AUTHOR’S NOTE I am generally skeptical of any author who puts within quotation marks conversations he never heard or who pretends to recollect with absolute fidelity conversations he heard many years ago. I, too, am guilty of some reconstruction, but the conversations with Major Dick Winters that appear in this book are as I best remember them. There are a few conversations in which I did not participate and others that I heard firsthand more than fifteen years ago. The former conversations are based on the memory of mutual friends who shared their recollections with me to provide the reader with a fuller understanding of Major Winters. In the latter conversations, the key phrases appear as I meticulously recorded them in my journal within days of my visits with the major. Additionally, the candid conversations outlined in the forthcoming pages follow a more thematic than chronological order; he...

Product details

• Authors: Cole C. Kingseed
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.01.2015
• EAN: 9780425271537
• ISBN: 978-0-425-27153-7
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 238 mm x 28 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies