Thomas E. Ricks The Generals (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The GeneralsCondition: NewSubtitle: American Military Command from World War II to TodayISBN-10: 0143124099EAN: 9780143124092ISBN: 9780143124092Publisher: Penguin USAFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/29/2013Description: A New York Times bestseller! An epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell.While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has been less kind to the generals of the wars that followed, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. In The Generals, Thomas E. Ricks sets out to explain why that is. In chronicling the widening gulf between performance and accountability among the top brass of the U.S. military, Ricks tells the stories of great leaders and suspect ones, generals who rose to the occasion and generals who failed themselves and their soldiers. In Ricks’s hands, this story resounds with larger meaning: about the transmission of values, about strategic thinking, and about the difference between an organization that learns and one that fails.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 33mmItem Weight: 550gAuthor: Thomas E. RicksGenre: BiographyTopic: Law & Politics, History, Military HistoryRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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