MacArthur and defeat in the Philippines
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Author
Publication
2001 - Overlook Press, Woodstock, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
98,500 words, Guess
Page Count
394 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemacarthurdefeati00conn
- ISBN-101585671185
- ISBN-139781585671182
- Goodreads2875248
- Library of Congress Control Number2001021095
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number45806459
- Better World Books9781585671182
- Open LibraryOL3942179M
Classifications
- DDC940.54/25
- LCCD767.4 .C596 2001
- LCCD767.4.C596 2001
Description
For many, Douglas MacArthur was a general to be ranked with Grant and Lee; for others he was much bluster and some cowardice. The truth, according to military historian Richard Connaughton, lies somewhere in the middle. MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines is a judicious and hard-headed portrait of a courageous general and deeply flawed man.Douglas MacArthur was born into a military family in 1880, and the need to measure up to the heroic example set by his father drove MacArthur. MacArthur's best qualities would be undone by his arrogance, vanity, deviousness and a truly breathtaking capacity for making enemies -- FDR chief among them -- and so when MacArthur arrived in the Philippines in the mid-30s it was as an exile from Roosevelt's anger. The Philippines were something of a family business for the MacArthur clan (his father had distinguished himself there at the turn of the century). Against all the odds, he assured Washington and the Philippine government of the islands' defensibility against a Japanese attack. In holding this view, Connaughton argues, MacArthur was proceeding on a notion with as much romance to it as military good sense. Willfully blind to the impending crisis, MacArthur and his troops were vulnerable to attack when it came finally in late December of 1941. MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines is a fascinating study of Douglas MacArthur and the crisis of leadership as well as a focussed study of one of the pivotal moments in World War II. --Goodreads
Description
"For many, Douglas MacArthur was a general to be ranked with Grant and Lee; for others he was much bluster and some cowardice, the "Dugout Doug" who abandoned his troops at Corregidor. The truth, according to military historian Richard Connaughton, lies somewhere in the middle. MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines is a judicious and hard-headed portrait of a courageous general and deeply flawed man.". "MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines is a study of Douglas MacArthur and the crisis of leadership, as well as a focused study of one of the pivotal moments in World War II."--BOOK JACKET.
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