TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hanson,Victor Davis
TI  - The savior generals: how five great commanders saved wars that were lost, from ancient Greece to Iraq 
SN  - 160819163X (hbk.)
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Press
KW  - Belisarius,
KW  - Themistocles,
KW  - Petraeus, David Howell
KW  - Ridgway, Matthew B.
KW  - Sherman, William T.
KW  - Command of troops
KW  - History
KW  - Generals
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -