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Frontline General: Douglas MacArthur
Jules Archer
其他書名
America's Most Controversial Hero
出版
Skyhorse
, 2017-01-10
主題
Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / General
Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Juvenile Nonfiction / History / General
Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Military & Wars
ISBN
1510706984
9781510706989
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2RF1EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
At twenty-six Douglas MacArthur was military aide to President Theodore Roosevelt, and his courageous leadership of the Rainbow Division in World War I made him a general. At the same time, his reluctance to heed any authority but his own gained him a reputation of arrogance and insubordination that was to shadow his entire career.
As MacArthur helped guide defeated Japan to democracy, it was remarked that he himself tolerated no democratic questioning of his commands. When he was summoned from Japan to take command of the desperately beleaguered forces in Korea, the conflict between duty and pride brought his career to a dramatic conclusion. With brilliant generalship he saved his army from defeat, only to be removed from his post when he refused to obey the president himself. Douglas MacArthur’s deeds were of heroic proportion, but he is, and will continue to be, one of America’s most controversial figures.