Ebook: Military History's Most Wanted: the Top 10 Book of Improbable Victories, Unlikely Heroes, and Other Martial Oddities

In 1944 U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Leslie J. McNair was accidentally killed by USAAF bombers that dropped their bombs short of the target, thus becoming the highest-ranking American casualty of World War II. Union Gen. Daniel Sickels was the first person to be successfully acquitted of murder by pleading temporary insanity after he shot and killed the son of "Star-Spangled Banner" composer Francis Scott Key in cold blood. Ten years before Custer's infamous last stand, U.S. cavalry Capt. William J. Fetterman disobeyed orders and led his eighty-man detachment in pursuit of a band of Sioux Indians. Neith.;Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Photographs; Acknowledgments; Preface; PERSONALITIES; The Great Captains of History; The Great Admirals of History; The Distaff Side of Command: Female Combat Leaders; Commanding Officers (Old); Commanding Officers (young); Disabled Commanders: The Sick, Lame, but not Lazy; Guerrillas; Mercenaries; Overrated Commanders; Underrated Commanders; Incompetent Commanders; Commanders Blinded by Their Own Ego; Military nicknames; Don't Ask, We'll Tell: Commanders of Dubious Sexual Proclivities; Amateur Commanders; Ivy League Graduates.