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The savior generals, how five great commanders saved wars that were lost, from ancient Greece to Iraq, Victor Davis Hanson

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The savior generals, how five great commanders saved wars that were lost, from ancient Greece to Iraq, Victor Davis Hanson
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
collective biography
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illustrationsmaps
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The savior generals
Nature of contents
bibliography
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813690969
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Victor Davis Hanson
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how five great commanders saved wars that were lost, from ancient Greece to Iraq
Summary
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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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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