Book TV: After Words...Victor Davis Hansen

zap2it ^ | First Aired: June 29, 2013 | CSPAN2

[virgil283]

NEW Episode: Victor Davis Hanson.... ``The Savior Generals: How Five Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost -- From Ancient Greece to Iraq.''...10:00 - 11:00 PM EST on CSPAN2 ...The author discusses his new book. (-VDH is as good a speaker as an author)

[virgil283]

The generals discussed are: Themistocles, Belisarius, Sherman, Ridgway and Petraeus

[Tax-chick]

I got this out of the library and made it through Themistocles and part of Belisarius. Hanson is a terrific researcher and analyst, but he is a clunky writer, plagued by random modifiers and scatterings of qualifying phrases which make his prose draaaaaaaaaaag.

[Nervous Tick]

>> I got this out of the library and made it through Themistocles and part of Belisarius.

And here I thought *I* was an intellectual, because I made it through Far Side and part of Dilbert. :-)

[ClearCase_guy]

I was amused to see a review of this on Amazon in which someone basically says: This is a book about generals? And you chose 5 of them? And none of them was Patton?? Terrible book -- I won't read it! One star!

Some folks are just locked into a certain view of things. Personally, I've been collecting VDH Books for decades. Not a bad one yet.

[Tax-chick]

LOL!