The Mask of CommandBy: John Keegan The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Through portraits of four generals archetypal hero Alexander the Great, anti hero Wellington, the unheroic Ulysses S. Grant and the false heroic of Hitler John Keegan propounds the view of heroism in warfare as inextricable linked with the political imperative of the age and place. He demonstrates how the role of the general