The generals American military command from World War II to today
History has been kind to the American generals of World War II-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley-and less kind to the generals of the wars that followed. In The Generals, Thomas E. Ricks sets out to explain why that is. In part it is the story of a widening gulf between performance and accou...
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New York, NY
Penguin Press
2012
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