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Marshall, hero for our times Cover Image Book

Marshall, hero for our times / Leonard Mosley.

Mosley, Leonard, 1913-1992 (Author).

Summary:

The first anecdotal, single-volume biography of George C. Marshall, one of the greatest generals in our history, a private, often enigmatic man, whose life was marked by incredible peaks and awesome depths.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0878513043
  • Physical Description: xxi, 570 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Hearst Books, [1982]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: pages 525-557.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part Four: Recall. 26. Eminence Grise -- 27. Front man -- 28. Clash -- 29. Crossing the Rubicon -- 30. Chinese laundry -- 31. Final chores. -- Taps.
Part One: The road to the top. 1. A disgrace to the family? -- 2. Shavetail -- 3. Fruitless search -- 4. Black Jack -- 5. Anticlimax -- 6. New deal -- raw deal -- 7. Apotheosis.
Part Three: The statesman. 19. Mission impossible -- 20. Showdown in Shanghai -- 21. "Don't Look Back" -- 22. Initiation -- 23. Marshalling Europe -- 24. Light in the refrigerator -- 25. No respite.
Part Two: Top man. 8. The road to Pearl -- 9. Bunglers -- 10. A day of infamous confusion -- 11. Gearing up -- 12. Turning pro -- 13. Great white stepfather -- 14. Thwarted -- 15. Perfidious allies -- 16. The bitter end -- 17. Berlin to the bomb -- 18. New direction.

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Subject: Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959.
United States. Army > Biography.
Generals > United States > Biography.
United States > History, Military > 20th century.
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 5 of 5 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 0 of 0 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.

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Charles H. Stone Memorial Library B MARSHALL (Text) 30665000119713 Adult Biography Available -
Cleveland County Main Library B MARSHALL (Text) 22281500055697 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Goldsboro Library 973.918 MOS (Text) 640192000248208 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Government and Heritage Library 973.9180924 M368M (Text) 33091002689867 Adult Storage Nonfiction Available -
Kenly Public Library B MARSHALL (Text) 38957990624618 Adult Biography Available -