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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq.
History has been kinder to the American generals of World War II - Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley - than to the generals of the wars that followed. Is it merely nostalgia? Thomas E. Ricks answers the question definitively: No, it is not, in no small part because of a widening gulf between performance and accountability. During the Second World War,...