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Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
ISBN: 9781608193424

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Stirring portraits of five military commanders (Themistocles of ancient Athens, the Byzantine general Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus), warriors whose dynamic leadership changed the course of war and history, filled with Hanson's trademark insight and depth of historical vision.

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Stirring portraits of five commanders whose dynamic leadership changed the course of war and history by prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson.

"Victor Davis Hanson has written another outstanding and eye-opening book"--The Washington Examiner

Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals (Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus) who single-handedly saved their nations from defeat in war. War is rarely a predictable enterprise-it is a mess of luck, chance, and incalculable variables. Today's sure winner can easily become tomorrow's doomed loser. Sudden, sharp changes in fortune can reverse the course of war.

These intractable circumstances are sometimes mastered by leaders of genius-asked at the eleventh hour to save a hopeless conflict, one created by others and frequently unpopular politically and with the public. The savior generals often come from outside the established power structure, employ radical strategies, and flame out quickly. Their careers regularly end in controversy. But their dramatic feats of leadership are vital slices of history-not merely as stirring military narrative, but as lessons on the dynamic nature of consensus, leadership, and destiny.

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Title The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
Author Victor Davis Hanson
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Pages 320
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date 2014-05-13
Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
ISBN 9781608193424 / 160819342X
Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm)
Category Biography / Autobiography
Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. His many books include the acclaimed The Father of Us All, A War Like No Other, The Western Way of War, Carnage and Culture, and Ripples of Battle.

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