The Savior Generals
How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost, from Ancient Greece to Iraq
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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.
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.
Subjects:
Themistocles, approximately 524 B.C.-approximately 459 B.C. -- Military leadership.
Belisarius, approximately 505-565 -- Military leadership.
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 -- Military leadership.
Ridgway, Matthew B. (Matthew Bunker), 1895-1993 -- Military leadership.
Petraeus, David Howell -- Military leadership.
Generals -- Biography.
Command of troops -- History.
Themistocles, approximately 524 B.C.-approximately 459 B.C. -- Military leadership.
Belisarius, approximately 505-565 -- Military leadership.
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 -- Military leadership.
Ridgway, Matthew B. (Matthew Bunker), 1895-1993 -- Military leadership.
Petraeus, David Howell -- Military leadership.
Generals -- Biography.
Command of troops -- History.
ISBN:
9781608191635 (hbk.)
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HISTORY War Han | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.