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The Savior Generals

Hardcover • 2013 • English

The Savior Generals

By Victor Davis Hanson

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About the book

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...Show more

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9781608191635

Publisher

Bloomsbury Press

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

The Savior Generals

Format

Hardcover

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