An account of the battlefield activities of German, British, American, and Russian generals during the largest war in history.

"From an acclaimed military historian, the interlocking lives of three of the most important and consequential generals in World War II. Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel became among the most recognized and successful military leaders of the twentieth century. However, as acclaimed military historian Lloyd Clark reveals in his penetrating and insightful braided chronicle of their lives,...

This insightful encyclopedia examines the most influential commanders who have shaped military history and the course of world events from ancient times to the present.

"Boots and Saddles" is in reality a bright and sunny sketch of the life of Mrs. Custer's late husband, Gen. George A. Custer, who fell at the battle of the Little Big Horn. Readers will find a first-hand account of her frontier life as a wife of a cavalry officer on the plains

Traces the stories of Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus, evaluating their pivotal military roles and the controversies that marked their careers.

"For the past three decades, Colin Powell has been among America's most trusted and admired leaders. This biography demonstrates that Powell's decades-long development as an exemplary subordinate is crucial to understanding his astonishing rise from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to the highest echelons of military and political power. Once an aimless, ambitionless teenager who barely graduated from college, Powell became an extraordinarily...