The savior generals : how five great commanders saved wars that were lost, from ancient Greece to Iraq
(2013)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
355.0092/HANSON,V
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781608191635 (hbk.), 160819163X (hbk.), 9781608191635, 160819163X :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
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