Great Commanders

A collection of essays profiling: Alexander the Great; Ghenghis Khan; Napoleon Bonaparte; Horatio Nelson; John J. Pershing; Erwin Rommell; Curtis LeMay.From the foreword: "In selecting the seven great commanders presented in this volume, the contributors sought to cover a wide spectrum of military endeavor, encompassing a very broad time-frame, different nationalities and cultures, and representatives from ground, sea, and air warfare. The commanders selected were masters of warfare in their particular time and environment. Each capitalized upon the social, political, economic, and technological conditions of his day to forge successful military forcees and win significant and noteworthy victories that profoundly altered the world in which he lived."

James H. Willbanks, PhD, is General of the Army George C. Marshall Chair of Military History and director of the Department of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS. He is a retired Army officer with 23 years of service in various infantry and staff assignments, which included a tour as an adviser with a South Vietnamese infantry regiment during the 1972 North Vietnamese Easter Offensive. Willbanks holds a bachelor's degree in history from Texas A&M University and a master's degree and doctorate in history from the University of Kansas. He is the author of several books on the Vietnam War, including "Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War"; "The Battle of An Loc"; and "The Tet Offensive: A Concise History". He is also editor of "America's Heroes: Medal of Honor Recipients from the Civil War to Afghanistan".