Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 160819342X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Moving portraits of five commanders whose dynamic leadership styles changed the course of warfare and history trace 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.
The Savior Generals
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 160819342X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Moving portraits of five commanders whose dynamic leadership styles changed the course of warfare and history trace 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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 160819342X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Moving portraits of five commanders whose dynamic leadership styles changed the course of warfare and history trace 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.
Summary of Victor Davis Hanson's The Savior Generals
Author: Everest Media,
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
ISBN: 1669373339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The occupying Persians began the laborious task of destroying the stone shrines and temples and torching homes in Athens. They finished off a few Athenian holdouts still barricaded on the Acropolis. Meanwhile, Xerxes drew up his fleet nearby at the Athenian harbor of Phaleron. #2 Xerxes’ invasion of Greece was a textbook example of momentum and glory, as the king had enjoyed for six months. His huge spring and summer expeditions had rolled out with little resistance, and his army and navy were not just bent on punishing the Greeks in battle, but on absorbing them into the Persian Empire. #3 The Battle of Salamis was a huge victory for the Greeks, but it was also a sign of how divided they were as a coalition. The sea powers Corinth and Aegina were historical rivals, and yet they were both enemies of the Athenians. #4 The salvation of Athenian civilization depended on the vision of a single firebrand, who was widely despised, and an uncouth commoner. Themistocles had previously failed twice up north at Tempe and Artemisium to stop the advance of Xerxes’ army.
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
ISBN: 1669373339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The occupying Persians began the laborious task of destroying the stone shrines and temples and torching homes in Athens. They finished off a few Athenian holdouts still barricaded on the Acropolis. Meanwhile, Xerxes drew up his fleet nearby at the Athenian harbor of Phaleron. #2 Xerxes’ invasion of Greece was a textbook example of momentum and glory, as the king had enjoyed for six months. His huge spring and summer expeditions had rolled out with little resistance, and his army and navy were not just bent on punishing the Greeks in battle, but on absorbing them into the Persian Empire. #3 The Battle of Salamis was a huge victory for the Greeks, but it was also a sign of how divided they were as a coalition. The sea powers Corinth and Aegina were historical rivals, and yet they were both enemies of the Athenians. #4 The salvation of Athenian civilization depended on the vision of a single firebrand, who was widely despised, and an uncouth commoner. Themistocles had previously failed twice up north at Tempe and Artemisium to stop the advance of Xerxes’ army.
The Soul of Battle
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Argues that American generals Sherman and Patton, as well as Athenian general Epaminondas, were the greatest military leaders in history.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Argues that American generals Sherman and Patton, as well as Athenian general Epaminondas, were the greatest military leaders in history.
History of Ohio during the war, and the lives of her generals
Grant
Author: Mitchell A. Yockelson
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 1595554521
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Chronicles the life of Union General Ulysses S. Grant
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 1595554521
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Chronicles the life of Union General Ulysses S. Grant
Carnage and Culture
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307425185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues that it is in fact Western culture and values–the tradition of dissent, the value placed on inventiveness and adaptation, the concept of citizenship–which have consistently produced superior arms and soldiers. Offering riveting battle narratives and a balanced perspective that avoids simple triumphalism, Carnage and Culture demonstrates how armies cannot be separated from the cultures that produce them and explains why an army produced by a free culture will always have the advantage.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307425185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues that it is in fact Western culture and values–the tradition of dissent, the value placed on inventiveness and adaptation, the concept of citizenship–which have consistently produced superior arms and soldiers. Offering riveting battle narratives and a balanced perspective that avoids simple triumphalism, Carnage and Culture demonstrates how armies cannot be separated from the cultures that produce them and explains why an army produced by a free culture will always have the advantage.
Historical Sketches of the Ninth Michigan Infantry (General Thomas' Headquarters Guards)
Author: Charles Wilkes Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Famous Generals of the Great War who Led the United States and Her Allies to a Glorious Victory
Author: Charles Haven Ladd Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Biographies of fourteen World War I generals.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Biographies of fourteen World War I generals.
Famous Generals of the Great War who Led the United States and Her Allies to a Glorious Victory, by Charles H. L. Johnston
Author: Charles Haven Ladd Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Biographies of fourteen World War I generals.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Biographies of fourteen World War I generals.
Famous Generals of the Great War who Led the United States and Her Allies to a Great Victory, by Charles H. L. Johnston
Author: Charles Haven Ladd Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description