The Generals : American Military Command From World War II to Today
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Read by William Hughes.
History has been kinder to the American generals of World War II than to the generals of later wars. Is this merely nostalgia? Thomas E. Ricks answers definitively: No, largely due to a widening gulf between performance and accountability. In The Generals we meet great leaders and suspect ones, from World War II to the present, generals who rose to the occasion and those who failed themselves and their soldiers. Marshall and Eisenhower cast long shadows over this story, but no figure is more inspiring than General O. P. Smith, whose fighting retreat from the Chinese onslaught into Korea in 1950 snatched a kind of victory from the jaws of annihilation.
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PUBLISHED
Ashland, OR : Blackstone Audio Inc 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 14 sound discs (ca 16 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781470817268
1470817268
SUBJECTS
Generals -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Command of troops -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies.
United States -- History, Military -- 20th century -- Case studies.
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