The Generals: American Military Command From World War II to Today [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Verlag: The Penguin Press, New York, 2012

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As new condition light gray boards/dark gray spine/red front cover and spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Prologue: Captain William DePuy and the 90th Division in Normandy, summer 1944; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. "There are no bad soldiers, only bad generals." - saying attributed to Napoleon. "This is a brilliant book - deeply researched, very well written, and outspoken. Ricks pulls no punches in naming names as he cites serious failures of leadership, even as we were winning World War II, and failures that led to serious problems in later wars. And he calls for rethinking the concept of generalship in the Army of the future." - William J. Perry, nineteenth U.S. Secretary of Defense. "Thomas E. Ricks has written a definitive and comprehensive story of American generalship from the battlefields of World War II to the recent war in Iraq. The Generals candidly reveals their triumphs and failures and offers a prognosis of what can be done to ensure success by our future leaders in the volatile world of the twenty-first century." - Carlo D'Este, author of Patton: A Genius for War. "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 accountability. During the Second World War, scores of American generals were relieved of command simply for not being good enough. Today, as one American colonel said bitterly during the Iraq war, "As matters stand now, a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war." In The Generals, we meet great leaders and suspect ones, generals who rose to the occasion and those who failed themselves and their soldiers. Marshall and Eisenhower cast long shadows over this story, as does the less familiar Marine general O.P. Smith, whose fighting retreat from the Chinese onslaught into Korea in the winter of 1950 snatched a kind of victory from the jaws of annihilation. But Korea also showed the first signs of an Army leadership culture that neither punished mediocrity nor particularly rewarded daring. In the Vietnam War, the problem grew worse, until finally American military leadership bottomed out. The My Lai Massacre, Ricks shows us, was the emblematic event in this dark chapter of our history. In the wake of Vietnam, a battle for the soul of the U.S. Army was wages with impressive success. It became a transformed institution, reinvigorated from the bottom up. But if the body was highly toned, its head still suffered from familiar problems, resulting in tactically savvy but strategically obtuse leadership that would win battles but end wars badly, from the first Iraq war of 1990 to the present. Ricks has made a close study of America's military leaders for three decades, and in his 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." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

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Titel
The Generals: American Military Command From World War II to Today [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
Autor
Ricks, Thomas E.
Verlag
The Penguin Press, New York
Veröffentlichungsjahr
2012
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As New
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Fine
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Hardcover
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1st Edition
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1st Printing
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8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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