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General of the Army : George C. Marshall, soldier and statesman / Ed Cray.
- Title
- General of the Army : George C. Marshall, soldier and statesman / Ed Cray.
- Author
- Cray, Ed.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Cooper Square Press ; [Lanham, MD] : Distributed by National Book Network, 2000.
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- Description
- xiv, 847 p. : ill., ports.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- As the U.S. Army's Chief of Staff thorugh World War II, George Catalett Marshall (1880-1959) organized the military mobilization of unprecedented numbers of Americans and decisively 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 Defense during the Korean war, Marshall the statesman created the European Recovery Act (known as the Marshall Plan), made possible the Berlin Airlift, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This masterful biography brings the reader face to face with a genuine American hero. -- from back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Norton, c1990.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [807]-822) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A place in history -- The soldier -- The chief of staff -- The victor -- The statesman.
- ISBN
- 0815410425 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^00030725^
- OCLC
- 43894230
- SCSB-11566651
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library