{"product_id":"the-generals-american-military-command-from-world-war-ii-to-today-1","title":"The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today","description":"A New York Times bestseller!\n\nAn epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell.\n\nWhile history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has been less kind to the generals of the wars that followed, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. In The Generals, Thomas E. Ricks sets out to explain why that is. In chronicling the widening gulf between performance and accountability among the top brass of the U.S. military, Ricks tells the stories of great leaders and suspect ones, generals who rose to the occasion and generals who failed themselves and their soldiers. In Ricks’s hands, this story resounds with larger meaning: about the transmission of values, about strategic thinking, and about the difference between an organization that learns and one that fails.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0143124099\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0143124099.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Ricks, Thomas E.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43336786149437,"sku":"BVV.0143124099.A","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0143124099-0.jpg?v=1783806867","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-generals-american-military-command-from-world-war-ii-to-today-1","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}