01729cam a2200361 i 4500 1164194584 TxAuBib 20130607120000.0 121019s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012039654 9781608191635 160819163X DLC eng DLC rda DLC TxAuBib rda Hanson, Victor Davis. The savior generals : how five great commanders saved wars that were lost, from ancient Greece to Iraq / Victor Davis Hanson. 1st ed. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013. 305 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. 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. 20130607. Themistocles ca. 524-ca. 459 B.C Military leadership. Belisarius ca. 505-565 Military leadership. Sherman, William T William Tecumseh 1820-1891 Military leadership. Ridgway, Matthew B Matthew Bunker 1895-1993 Military leadership. Petraeus, David Howell Military leadership. Generals Biography. Command of troops History. TXKIP