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The savior generals : how five great commanders saved wars that were lost, from ancient Greece to Iraq
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Format:
Books
ISBN:
| 9781608191635 |
Publication Date:
2013
Language:
English
Physical Description:
305 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.