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MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero by Stanley Weintraub
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- ISBN-13
- 9781439152942
- ISBN
- 9781439152942
- Book Title
- Macarthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- History
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Item Weight
- 608g
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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Douglas MacArthur towers over twentieth-century American history. His fame is based chiefly on his World War II service in the Philippines. Yet Korea, America's forgotten war, was far more MacArthur's War -- and it remains one of our most brutal and frightening. In just three years thirty-five thousand Americans lost their lives -- more than three times the rate of losses in Vietnam. Korea, like Vietnam, was a breeding ground for the crimes of war. To this day, six thousand Americans remain MIA. It was Korea where American troops faced a Communist foe for the first time, as both China and the Soviet Union contributed troops to the North Korean cause. The war that nearly triggered the use of nuclear weapons reveals MacArthur at his most flamboyant, flawed, yet still, at times, brilliant. Acclaimed historian Stanley Weintraub offers a thrilling blow-by-blow account of the key actions of the Korean War during the months of MacArthur's command. Our lack of preparedness for the invasion, our disastrous retreat to a corner of Korea, the daring landing at Inchon, the miscalculations in pursuing the enemy north, the headlong retreats from the Yalu River and Chosin Reservoir, and the clawing back to the 38th parallel, all can be blamed or credited to MacArthur. He was imperious, vain, blind to criticism, and so insubordinate that Truman was forced to fire him. Yet years later, the war would end where MacArthur had left it, at the border that still stands as one of history's last frontiers between communism and freedom. MacArthur's War draws on extensive archival research, memoirs, and the latest findings from archives in the formerly communist world, to weave a rich tale in the voices of its participants. From MacArthur and his upper cadre, to feisty combat correspondent Maggie Higgins and her fellow journalists, to the grunts who bore the brunt of MacArthur's decisions, for good and ill, this is a harrowing account of modern warfare at its bloodiest. MacArthur's War is the gripping story of the Korean War and its soldiers -- and of the one soldier who dominated the rest.
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Simon & Schuster
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9781439152942
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Book Title
Macarthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
416 Pages
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229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
608g
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