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.
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..
Their careers regularly end in controversy.
The Savior generals often come From outside the established power structure, employ radical strategies, and flame out quickly.
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.
Sudden, sharp changes in fortune can reverse the course of war.
Today\'s sure winner can easily become tomorrow\'s doomed loser.
War is rarely a predictable enterprise-it is a mess of luck, chance, and incalculable variables.
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.
Stirring portraits of Five Commanders whose dynamic leadership changed the course of war and history by prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson.
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
