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How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost-From Ancient Greece to Iraq
Bloomsbury Press
May 2013
On Sale: May 14, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 160819163X
EAN: 9781608191635
Kindle: B00CHHTJBK
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
Leading military historian Victor Davis Hanson returns to
non-fiction in The Savior Generals, a set of
brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals 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, created by others, often unpopular with politics
and the public. These savior generals often come from
outside the established power structure, employ radical
strategies, and flame out quickly. Their careers often 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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