Journalist Rick Atkinson chronicles his two months with the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army in the 2003 war in Iraq, covering such topics as guerrilla resistance, one soldier's violent attack on his comrades, and the leadership of Major General David H. Petraeus.
Traces the stories of Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus, evaluating their pivotal military roles and the controversies that marked their careers.