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Author Hanson, Victor Davis.

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

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
©2013
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1574894~S1
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 95th Street Adult Biography  BIO THEMISTO    DUE 05-15-24
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Description 305 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 25 cm
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- One hundred days in Korea: Matthew Ridgway takes over-winter 1950-51 -- Iraq is "lost": David Petraeus and the surge in Iraq-January 2007-May 2008.
Subject Themistocles, approximately 524 B.C.-approximately 459 B.C. -- Military leadership.
Belisarius, approximately 505-565 -- Military leadership.
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 -- Military leadership.
Ridgway, Matthew B. (Matthew Bunker), 1895-1993 -- Military leadership.
Petraeus, David Howell -- Military leadership.
Generals -- Biography.
Command of troops -- History.
Military history.
ISBN 9781608191635 (hbk.)
160819163X (hbk.)
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