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MacArthur (Great Generals)
Douglas MacArthur might be popularly remembered for his legendary pledge of 'I shall return,' but it was his ability to adapt and perceiver that catalyzed his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability has become an indispensable trait for military leadership especially in an era when technological leaps guarantee the nature of war will radically change during the span of an o...more
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July 10th 2007
by Blackstone Audio Inc.
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Rather well written when you consider how short a work this is (200 pages) versus the epic that is American Ceaser.
However, in this short biography, the author does provide an excellent overview of MacArthur's career and personality. He provides some especially interesting insight into the following topics:
--The Bonus Marchers incident
--The Chinese decision to enter the Korean War
--The development of MacArthur's Island hopping strategy in WWII
--MacArt...more
However, in this short biography, the author does provide an excellent overview of MacArthur's career and personality. He provides some especially interesting insight into the following topics:
--The Bonus Marchers incident
--The Chinese decision to enter the Korean War
--The development of MacArthur's Island hopping strategy in WWII
--MacArt...more
I didn't know many details of General MacArthur's military career before reading this book. The author does a nice job of giving the reader a good understanding of the battles he led in WWI, WWII, the Phillipines, and Korea without getting into too much detail. My guess is that Frank leans left politically with some of his treatment and comments about MacArthur. Overall, I thought it was a mostly fair review of this great man.
Seemed to be a fair and balanced look at MacArthur's life, a complex individual for certain. Much less critical of the view of the General one gets from Davis Halbertam's "The Coldest Winter", which discusses MacArthur during the Korean War. You get a sense from reading Richard Frank's book that like most of us, there are the good sides and the bad, and with someone in a leadership position such as General MacArthur's, it's inevitable that he'll have his serious detractors as well as...more
I should have known not to expect too much from this book when I saw the foreword was by Gen. W. Clark. While Frank pays tribute to some of MacArthur's gifts, it is mainly a rehash of well-known criticisms and makes no attempt to examine the motives and methods of his detractors. It is woefully lacking in original insight into the motivation of a man much more complex than he is conventionally portrayed.
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