The savior generals

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

The savior generals

how five great commanders saved wars that were lost from ancient Greece to Iraq
Victor Davis Hanson
Book - 2013

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.

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Hanson, Victor Davis
التنسيق: كتاب
اللغة:English
منشور في: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
الطبعة:1st ed.
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505 0 |a 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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