General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman

General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman
ISBN-10
1461660998
ISBN-13
9781461660996
Category
History
Pages
876
Language
English
Published
2000-06-06
Publisher
Cooper Square Press
Author
Ed Cray

Description

As the U.S. Army's Chief of staff through World War II, George Catlett marshall (1880-1959) organized the military mobilization of unprecedented number of Americans and shaped the Allied strategy that defeated first Nazi Germany, then Imperial Japan. As President Truman's Secretary of State, and later as his Secretary of Defence during the Korean War, Marshall the statesman created the European Recovery Act (known as the Marshall Plan) and made possible the Berlin Airlift. Ed Cray in this masterful biography brings us face-to-face with a genuine American hero and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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