The Warrior Generals
Title | The Warrior Generals PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Buell |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 529 |
Release | 1998-03-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0609801732 |
master historian gives readers a fresh new picture of the Civil War as it really was. Buell examines three pairs of commanders from the North and South, who met each other in battle. Following each pair through the entire war, the author reveals the human dimensions of the drama and brings the battles to life. 38 b&w photos.
General Robert F. Hoke
Title | General Robert F. Hoke PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel W. Barefoot |
Publisher | John F. Blair, Publisher |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Confederate States of America-biography |
ISBN | 9780895872371 |
Robert F. Hoke was the youngest Southern general in the Civil War, rumored to be Lee's successor, but once he returned home, "he declined every honor offered him by North Carolinians, including the governorship."--Jacket.
The Warrior Generals
Title | The Warrior Generals PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas B. Buell |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
A master historian gives readers a fresh new picture of the Civil War as it really was. Buell examines three pairs of commanders from the North and South, who met each other in battle. Following each pair through the entire war, the author reveals the human dimensions of the drama and brings the battles to life. 38 b&w photos.
Warrior in Two Camps
Title | Warrior in Two Camps PDF eBook |
Author | William H. Armstrong |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1978-06-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780815624950 |
Warrior in Two Camps is the biography of Ely S. Parker, the first native American to serve as commissioner of Indian Affairs. The name Ely Samuel Parker is seldom found among famous Indian chiefs. Indeed, the name seems somehow out of place in the company of men called Black Hawk or Crazy Horse or Geronimo. But the prosaic name is part of the story of an American Indian who chose to live his life in the white man’s world. It is a story in which a frock coat replaces the traditional deerskin, and a surveyor’s level and a soldier’s orderly book take the place of the wampum belt and the war club.
The Generals
Title | The Generals PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas E. Ricks |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 578 |
Release | 2013-10-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0143124099 |
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.
The Corporate Warrior
Title | The Corporate Warrior PDF eBook |
Author | James P. Farwell |
Publisher | Rothstein Publishing |
Pages | 10 |
Release | 2022-03-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1944480749 |
"Foreword by Admiral James G. Stavridis"--Cover.
Honorable Warrior
Title | Honorable Warrior PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis Sorley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
A man of extraordinary inner strength and patriotic devotion, General Harold K. Johnson was a soldier's officer, loved by his men and admired by his peers for his leadership, courage, and moral convictions. Lewis Sorley's biography provides a fitting testament to this remarkable man and his dramatic rise from obscurity to become LBJ's Army Chief of Staff during the Vietnam War. A native of North Dakota, Johnson survived more than three grueling years as a POW under the Japanese during World War II before serving brilliantly as a field commander in the Korean War, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for "extraordinary heroism." The latter experiences led to a series of high-level positions that culminated in his appointment as Army chief in 1964 and a cover story in Time magazine. What followed should have been the most rewarding period of Johnson's military career. Instead, it proved to be a nightmare, as he quickly became mired in the politics and ordeal of a very misguided war. Johnson fundamentally disagreed with the three men—LBJ, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and General William Westmoreland—running our war in Vietnam. He was sharply critical of LBJ's piecemeal policy of gradual escalation and his failure to mobilize the national will or call up the reserves. He was equally despondent over Westmoreland's now infamous search-and-destroy tactics and reliance on body counts to measure success in Vietnam. By contrast, he advocated greater emphasis on cutting the North's supply lines, helping the South Vietnamese provide for their own internal defenses, and sustaining a truly legitimate government in the South. Unheeded, he nevertheless continued to work behind the scenes to correct the nation's flawed approach to the war. Sorley's study adds immeasurably to our understanding of the Vietnam War. It also provides an inspiring account of principled leadership at a time when the American military is seeking to recover the very kinds of moral values exemplified by Harold K. Johnson. As such, it presents a profound morality tale for our own era.