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When four-star general John Rogers Galvin retired from the US Army after forty-four years of distinguished service in 1992, the Washington Post hailed him as a man "without peer among living generals." In Fighting the Cold War: A Soldier's Memoi[...]
ISBN/ISSN/EAN: 978-0-8131-6101-3 Artikel op pagina: XV, 517 p. Descriptors : Indexering: 327.073 047 09 Tags: Galvin, John R., 1929-2015 ; United States. Army--Officers--Biography ; United States. Army ; Cold War--1945-1989 ; Generals--United States--Biography ; Armed forces--Officers Talen: Engels Books
"Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S[...]
ISBN/ISSN/EAN: 978-0-14-311063-7 Artikel op pagina: XXI, 1074 p. Indexering: 973.820 92 Tags: Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885 ; United States. Army--Biography ; Generals--United States--Biography ; Presidents--United States--Biography ; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography Talen: Engels Books
General George Smith Patton Jr., one of the most accomplished and successful military men in American history, died on December 21, 1945, less than two weeks after a car crash in Mannheim, Germany left him paralyzed. Patton’s car crash on Decemb[...]
ISBN/ISSN/EAN: 978-1-62157-291-6 Artikel op pagina: XXVI, 454 p. Indexering: 355.0092 Tags: Patton, George Smith, 1885-1945 ; Patton, George Smith, 1885-1945--Assassination ; United States. Army--Biography ; United States. Army ; Traffic accidents--Germany--Mannheim--History--20th century ; Conspiracies--History--20th century ; Assassination--Investigation--Case studies ; Generals--United States--Biography Talen: Engels Books
The Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who plotted to revolutionize one of the largest, oldest, and most hidebound institutions—the United States military. Their aim was to build[...]
ISBN/ISSN/EAN: 978-1-4516-4263-6 Artikel op pagina: 418 p. Indexering: 355.02/180973 Tags: Petraeus, David Howell, 1952- ; Counterinsurgency--United States--History ; Strategic culture--United States--History ; Generals--United States--Biography ; Counterinsurgency--Iraq--History--21st century ; Iraq War, 2003-2011--Campaigns ; Afghan War, 2001--Campaigns ; United States--Armed Forces--Officers--Education ; United States--Military policy--Planning ; United States--Military policy--History Talen: Engels Books
Draws on Bradley's diaries and papers to recount his experiences as American commander at Normandy, as ground-war strategist in Europe, and as first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General of the Army Omar Nelson Bradley was an America[...]
ISBN/ISSN/EAN: 978-0-671-41023-0 Artikel op pagina: 752 p. Descriptors : 3.25 Histoire > Histoire > Histoire militaire
7.10 Amériques et Caraïbes > Amérique du Nord > États-Unis > Armée, biographie
Indexering: 940.542 109 24 Tags: Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981 ; United States. Army--Biography ; Generals--United States--Biography ; United States--History, Military--20th century Talen: Engels Books
Ulysses simpson Grant ; Elizabeth d. Samet | New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company | 2019One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grants landmark memoir, and expands the Civil War backdrop against which this monumental American life is typically[...]
ISBN/ISSN/EAN: 978-1-63149-244-0 Artikel op pagina: LXXIV, 1068 p. Indexering: 973.820 92 Tags: Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885 ; United States. Army--Biography ; United States--History--Civil war, 1861-1865 ; Generals--United States--Biography ; Presidents--United States--Biography ; United States--History--Civil war, 1861-1865--Campaigns Talen: Engels Books
Call Sign Chaos is the account of Jim Mattis's storied career, from wide-ranging leadership roles in three wars to ultimately commanding a quarter of a million troops across the Middle East. Along the way, Mattis recounts his foundational experi[...]
ISBN/ISSN/EAN: 978-0-8129-8663-1 Artikel op pagina: XIV, 300 p. Descriptors : 3.40 Littérature > Forme et genre littéraire > Prose > Biographie
Indexering: 355.033 573 Tags: Mattis, James N., 1950- ; Mattis, James N., 1950---Military leadership ; United States ; Marine Corps--Officers--Biography ; Generals--United States--Biography ; Cabinet officers--United States--Biography ; Command of troops ; Leadership. Talen: Engels Books
When General James Mattis took command of the First Division in 2000, he took for their motto a paraphrase of Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla: "No better friend, no worse enemy." In 2003, General James N. Mattis shared a "Message to All Han[...]
ISBN/ISSN/EAN: 978-0-06-280391-7 Artikel op pagina: 257 p. Indexering: 956.704 434 5 Tags: United States. Marine Corps--Officers--Biography ; Generals--United States--Biography Talen: Engels Books
As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal played a crucial role in the War on Terror. But when he took the helm in 2004, America was losing that war badly: despite vastly inferior resources and technolog[...]
ISBN/ISSN/EAN: 978-0-241-25083-9 Artikel op pagina: IX, 290 p. Indexering: 658.4/022 Tags: United States. Joint Special Operations Command--Reorganization ; Teams in the workplace ; Organizational effectiveness ; Decentralization in management ; Organizational behavior ; Military administration--United States--Case studies ; Generals--United States--Biography ; Leadership (E) Talen: Engels Books
General Stanley McChrystal is widely admired for his hunger to know the truth, his courage to find it, and his humility to listen to those around him. Even as the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, he stationed h[...]
Uitgave: repr. ed. ISBN/ISSN/EAN: 978-1-59184-682-6 Artikel op pagina: XVI, 456 p. Indexering: 355.0092 Tags: McChrystal, Stanley A., 1954- ; McChrystal, Stanley A.--Military leadership ; United States. Army--Biography ; United States. Joint Special Operations Command--Biography ; Generals--United States--Biography ; Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American ; Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Talen: Engels