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MacArthur's War

MacArthur's War
MacArthur's War
Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero  
By Stanley Weintraub
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The Korean War -- America's forgotten war -- was one of our country's most brutal, claiming the lives of American soldiers at more than three times the rate of losses in Vietnam. At the helm was the towering military hero Douglas MacArthur, whose pride and insubordination took the conflict to the edge of nuclear war. In MacArthur's War, acclaimed historian Stanley Weintraub offers a blow-by-blow account of the months of MacArthur's command. Relying upon extensive new research and giving voice to ordinary soldiers, Weintraub has crafted a harrowing tale of modern warfare at its bloodiest and a telling portrait of the man who was the driving force behind it all.

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David M. Kennedy The New York Times Book Review For depicting the agony of the war on the ground and for cutting MacArthur down to size, this impassioned book has few equals.
John Lehman The Wall Street Journal An excellent book to read on the...anniversary of "The Forgotten War."
Bob Minzesheimer USA Today Weintraub vividly re-creates the first ten months of the Korean War
-- from MacArthur's daring and successful amphibious landing at Inchon to his disastrous Chosin Reservoir campaign.
Alonzo Hambyauthor of Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. TrumanMacArthur's War is a splendid read by one of America's finest narrative historians. Mr. Weintraub, writing in part from his own experience as a green combatant in the Korean conflict, tells a gripping story that mixes unpreparedness, courage, and resourcefulness on the ground, with both greatness and hollowness at the top ranks of command. He makes it abundantly clear that on several levels the experience of this forgotten war needs to be remembered by one generation after another.
Peter Maslowskico-author of For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of AmericaBased on extensive research in primary and secondary sources and laced with colorful anecdotes, this book persuasively argues that from the North Korean invasion in June 1950 until President Harry S. Truman relieved him in April 1951, Korea really was 'MacArthur's War.' A compelling account of MacArthur's systematic insubordination and confidently expressed misjudgments.
James Tobinauthor of Ernie Pyle's WarStanley Weintraub shatters the graven image of MacArthur as the great American warrior of his era. The man whom Harry Truman lampooned as 'God's right-hand man' emerges here as a supreme windbag well past his prime, a myopic commander whose strategic priority was public relations and who never spent so much as one night in Korea.
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