The Savior Generals : : how Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost, From Ancient Greece to Iraq
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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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 305 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781608191635
160819163X
SUBJECTS
Themistocles, -- approximately 524 B.C.-approximately 459 B.C. -- Military leadership.
Belisarius, -- approximately 505-565 -- Military leadership.
Sherman, William T. -- 1820-1891 -- Military leadership.
Ridgway, Matthew B. -- 1895-1993 -- Military leadership.
Petraeus, David Howell -- Military leadership.
Generals -- Biography.
Command of troops -- History.