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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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The savior generals: how five great commanders saved wars that were lost, from ancient Greece to Iraq
2013, Bloomsbury Press
in English
- 1st ed.
160819163X 9781608191635
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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