General George Washington: A Military Life
Written by Edward G. Lengel
Narrated by Jack Garrett
4/5
()
About this audiobook
Edward G. Lengel
EDWARD G. LENGEL is senior director of programs at the National World War II Museum’s Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was a full professor and directed the Washington Papers Project for many years. He wrote the new history of Colonial Williamsburg as a “Revolutionary in Residence.” Lengel has written fourteen books on American history, including General George Washington: A Military Life, and Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War’s Lost Battalion. Lengel is a co-recipient of the National Humanities Medal and has won two writing awards from the Army Historical Foundation.
Related to General George Washington
Related audiobooks
The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mad Anthony Wayne: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Revolutionary War General Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5April 1865: The Month That Saved America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Heritage History of the American Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Samuel Adams: A Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5NPR American Chronicles: The Military History Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dawn's Early Light Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Never Call Retreat Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The War Before Independence: 1775-1776 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5General Sherman's Christmas: Savannah, 1864 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Political Biographies For You
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enough Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5John Adams Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Romney: A Reckoning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The White House Plumbers: The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon's Presidency Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Benjamin Franklin Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lincoln Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mornings on Horseback Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Assassination Vacation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A House in the Sky: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fear: Trump in the White House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Peril Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Infidel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Watergate Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for General George Washington
9 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was an interesting narrative about George Washington and the quality of his generalship from his days fighting in the French and Indian War until he said farewell to his command at the conclusion of the War of Independence. Lengel covers all the main important aspects of the war, and reasonably critiques Washington's performance in the important battles and campaigns. I don't think there are many big surprises in the book. The discussion of Washington as tactically aggressive, sometimes to the point of rashness, while being strategically cautious, was useful and interesting. My one criticism is that a deeper analysis at the end of the book would be stronger than the analysis that seems to be parceled out at the end of chapters.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great narrative about the military role George Washington played throughout his life. I suppose one might be able to interpret a number of different styles of leadership from the evidence of his multiple commands. However, at the end of the day, his perseverance through admittedly diffucult days during the Revolutionary War, saw the colonist through to victory (albeit with a little help from the French!)A great story, which also tackles Washington's early years working with the British against the French. A good primer overall on Washington's military exploits.