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General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman

paperback – June 6, 2000
by Cray, Ed
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ISBN-13: 9780815410423 ISBN-10: 0815410425
Publisher
Cooper Square Press
Binding
paperback
Published
June 6, 2000
Weight
2.5 lbs
Dimensions
23.40×4.20×15.40 cm

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General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman by Cray, Ed. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780815410423.

As the U.S. Armys Chief of staff through World War II, George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959) organized the military mobilization of unprecedented number of Americans and shaped the Allied strategy that defeated first Nazi Germany, then Imperial Japan. As President Trumans 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) and made possible the Berlin Airlift. Ed Cray in this masterful biography brings us face-to-face with a genuine American hero and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.