General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman
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Book
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ISBN 10
0815410425
ISBN 13
9780815410423
Category
Biographies / Autobiographies
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Publication Year
2000
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Pages
864
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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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