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