Douglas MacArthur towers over twentieth-century American history.
His fame is based chiefly on his World War II service in the
Philippines. Yet Korea, America's forgotten war, was far more
"MacArthur's War" -- and it remains one of our most brutal and
frightening. In just three years thirty-five thousand Americans
lost their lives -- more than three times the rate of losses in
Vietnam. Korea, like Vietnam, was a breeding ground for the crimes
of war. To this day, six thousand Americans remain MIA. It was
Korea where American troops faced a Communist foe for the first
time, as both China and the Soviet Union contributed troops to the
North Korean cause. The war that nearly triggered the use of
nuclear weapons reveals MacArthur at his most flamboyant, flawed,
yet still, at times, brilliant. Acclaimed historian Stanley
Weintraub offers a thrilling blow-by-blow account of the key
actions of the Korean War during the months of MacArthur's command.
Our lack of preparedness for the invasion, our disastrous retreat
to a corner of Korea, the daring landing at Inchon, the
miscalculations in pursuing the enemy north, the headlong retreats
from the Yalu River and Chosin Reservoir, and the clawing back to
the 38th parallel, all can be blamed or credited to MacArthur. He
was imperious, vain, blind to criticism, and so insubordinate that
Truman was forced to fire him. Yet years later, the war would end
where MacArthur had left it, at the border that still stands as one
of history's last frontiers between communism and freedom.
MacArthur's War draws on extensive archival research, memoirs, and
the latest findings from archives in the formerly communist world,
to weave a rich tale in the voices of its participants. From
MacArthur and his upper cadre, to feisty combat correspondent
Maggie Higgins and her fellow journalists, to the grunts who bore
the brunt of MacArthur's decisions, for good and ill, this is a
harrowing account of modern warfare at its bloodiest. MacArthur's
War is the gripping story of the Korean War and its soldiers -- and
of the one soldier who dominated the rest.
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