$5 · The Generals: American Military Command from WW2 to Today

Hardcover with dust jacket in pretty great shape. Has a gifting inscription written on the inside endpage. Pick-up is in Saanich, close to the Monkey Tree and ICBC plaza off McKenzie Ave. Cross-posted. Thanks for looking! 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.”