Generals American Military Command from World War II to Today

Name: Generals American Military Command from World War II to Today
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ISBN: 9780143124092

ISBN-10: 0143124099

ISBN-13: 9780143124092

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Authors: Thomas E. Ricks

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An epic history of the decline of American military leadershipfrom the #1 bestselling author of FiascoThomas E. Ricks has made a close study of America’s military leaders for three decades, and in The Generals, he chronicles the widening gulf between performance and accountability among the top brass of the U.S. military. While history has been kind to the American generals of World War IIMarshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradleyit has been less kind to others, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. Ricks sets out to explain why that is. We meet great leaders and suspect ones, generals who rose to the occasion and generals who failed themselves and their soldiers. In Ricks’s…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/29/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.43" long x 1.33" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Thomas E. Ricks lives outside Washington, D.C., with his wife and children.