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

Hanson, Victor Davis.

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ISBN:

9781608191635

Edition:

First edition

Description:

305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:

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
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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2012039654

Control Number:

934160

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