Description: Stirring portraits of five military commanders (Themistocles of ancient Athens, the Byzantine general Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus), warriors whose dynamic leadership changed the course of war and history, filled with Hanson's trademark insight and depth of historical vision.
Review Quotes:
"An instructive series of portraits of five military outsiders called in to turn defeat into victory." --Kirkus Reviews
"It is not really news that Victor Davis Hanson has written another outstanding and eye-opening book. He has done that before and repeatedly, on a variety of subjects." --The Washington Examiner "Students of military leadership will be intrigued by Hanson's astute set of cases." --Booklist "Mr. Hanson's fluency with a broad range of historical epochs, which has made him one of his generation's most notable historians, is on full display in The Savior Generals." --Wall Street Journal, Mark Moyar