American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964

Part One Of Two PartsMacArthur was not only a lean, chiseled military genius and master of strategy; he also suffered unexplained lapses. For example, he knew of the Pearl Harbor attack but neglected to deploy his Philippine air force, a failure which resulted in its total destruction. And the succe...

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Príomhúdar: Manchester, William
Formáid: Leabhar
Teanga:Undetermined
Foilsithe: Boston Little, Brown 1978
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Clibeanna: Cuir Clib Leis
Gan Chlibeanna, Bí ar an gcéad duine leis an taifead seo a chlibeáil!
Thư viện lưu trữ: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ
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Achoimre:Part One Of Two PartsMacArthur was not only a lean, chiseled military genius and master of strategy; he also suffered unexplained lapses. For example, he knew of the Pearl Harbor attack but neglected to deploy his Philippine air force, a failure which resulted in its total destruction. And the success of his Inchon invasion was all but undone by the Chinese hordes that later swarmed across the Yalu--a response easily predicted, disastrously ignored."AMERICAN CAESAR is gracefully written, impeccably researched and scrupulous in every way...a thrilling and profoundly ponderable piece of work.