Bibliograph

The savior generals, how five great commanders saved wars that were lost, from ancient Greece to Iraq, Victor Davis Hanson

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The savior generals, how five great commanders saved wars that were lost, from ancient Greece to Iraq, Victor Davis Hanson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The savior generals

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

843125638

Responsibility statement

Victor Davis Hanson

Sub title

how five great commanders saved wars that were lost, from ancient Greece to Iraq

Summary

Traces the stories of Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus, evaluating their pivotal military roles and the controversies that marked their careers

Table Of Contents

Athens is burning: Themistocles at Salamis-September 480 B.C. -- Byzantium at the brink: the fireman Flavius Belisarius-A.D. 527-559 -- "Atlanta is ours and fairly won": William Tecumseh Sherman's gift to Abraham Lincoln-summer 1864 -- 100 days in Korea: Matthew Ridgway takes over-winter 1950-51 -- Iraq is "lost": David Petraeus and the surge in Iraq-January 2007-May 2008

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