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    George Marshall: An Interpretive Biography
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    George Marshall: An Interpretive Biography
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    George Marshall: An Interpretive Biography

    Written by Debi Unger and Irwin Unger

    Narrated by Johnny Heller

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    Based on exhaustive research and filled with rich detail, George Marshall is sure to be hailed as the definitive work on one of the most influential figures in American history—the general who ran the U.S. campaign during the Second World War, the secretary of state who oversaw the successful rebuilding of postwar Europe, and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

    While Eisenhower Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, MacArthur, Nimitz, and Leahy waged battles in Europe and the Pacific, one military leader, George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U.S. Army from 1939 to 1945, actually ran World War II for America, overseeing all personnel and logistics.

    This biography, the first to offer a complete picture of his life, follows George C. Marshall from his childhood in western Pennsylvania and his training at the Virginia Military Institute to his role during and after World War II and his death in 1959 at the age of seventy-eight. It casts light on the inspiration he took from historical role models, such as George Washington and Robert E. Lee, and his relationships with military brass, the Washington political establishment, and world leaders, from Harry Truman to Chiang Kai-shek. It explores Marshall's triumphs and defeats during World War II, and his contributions through two critical years of the emerging Cold War—including the transformative Marshall Plan, which saved Western Europe from Soviet domination, and his failed attempt to unite China's Nationalists and Communists.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateOct 21, 2014
    ISBN9780062362131
    Author

    Debi Unger

    Together Irwin and Debi Unger have authored LBJ: A Life and several other books. They live in New York City.

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    • 5/5
      Tremendous telling of the life of perhaps the most important American of the twentieth century. Honest in criticism of his faults as well as he’s good qualities and achievements. Extremely detailed and yet holds the reader’s attention.
    • 3/5
      The book was a history of WW2 & the early Cold War as much as a Marshall bio. Thus, it could be much shorter and still cover the subject adequately. On what was about Marshall, a well balanced biography. It illustrates bus strengths and weaknesses. It was a little dry and boring at times. It seemed to me that the book spent most of it's time on WW2 and gave short shrift to the SECSTATE and SECDEF times.
    • 5/5
      This is a marvelous biography of a man who led an interesting and well-connected life. The Ungers showcase a detailed and easily readable biography, with the best part coming during World War II showing the war from Marshall’s point of view. A definite must read for military or history buffs.Free review copy.
    • 5/5
      A well balanced biography on General Marshall. It illustrates bus strengths and weaknesses. It lauds him for his creation of the army that won World War Two while acknowledging it's weaknesses in training and morale. He was the front man for the so called Marshall Plan, but was less than successful in his handling of China as Secretary of State and acknowledge his weakness in dealing with Douglas MacArthur both as Army Chief of Staff and Secretary of Defense. A thoroughly enjoyable read, which I recommend.