Marshall, hero for our times / Leonard Mosley.
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]
- Copyright: ©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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