Hackett, General Sor John, — THE PROFESSION OF ARMS.
Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1984, paperback, 239pp, half tone pictorial frontis, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, large format (10 x 7 inches approx.), coloured pictorial wrappers, an examination of 4,000 years of military history to reveal the forces that have shaped the role of the professional man-at-arms, from the citzen-soldiers of Athens and the solder-citizens of Sparta, the legions of Rome, the age of chivalry, of the domination of the profession by Prussia and of Napoleonic France with its massive national army, through to modern times, the text is based on the influential Lees-Knowles lectures given by the author at Cambridge in 1962, updated and amplified with a further essay on leadership, lightly rubbed at extrems., very good,
