The savior generals
Subtitle: how five great commanders saved wars that were lost, from ancient Greece to Iraq
By: Victor Davis Hanson
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781608191635
Subjects: Command of troops; Generals; Military leadership; Biography; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Athens is burning: Themistocles at Salamis-September 480 B.C.; title: Byzantium at the brink: the fireman Flavius Belisarius-A.D. 527-559; title: "Atlanta is ours and fairly won": William Tecumseh Sherman's gift to Abraham Lincoln-summer 1864; title: 100 days in Korea: Matthew Ridgway takes over-winter 1950-51; title: Iraq is "lost": David Petraeus and the surge in Iraq-January 2007-May 2008.