Macarthur's War
  • Published: 23 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780425261217
  • Imprint: Dutton
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $36.00

Macarthur's War

The Flawed Genius Who Challenged The American

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The trade paperback edition of MACARTHUR'S WAR, military historian Bevin Alexander's new work exploring the clash between General Douglas MacArthur and President Harry S. Truman during the Korean War.

General Douglas MacArthur was highly skilled and world famous as a military commander. Under his leadership after World War II, Japan was rebuilt into a democratic ally. But during the Korean War, in defiance of President Harry S. Truman and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he pushed for an aggressive confrontation with Communist China—a position intended to provoke a wider war, regardless of the consequences.
 
While MacArthur aspired to stamp out Communism across the globe, Truman was much more concerned with containing the Soviet Union. The infamous clash between them was not only an epic turning point in history, but the ultimate struggle between civil and military power in the United States. While other U.S. generals have challenged presidential authority, no other military leader has ever so brazenly attempted to dictate national policy.
 
In MacArthur’s War, Bevin Alexander details MacArthur’s battles, from the alliances he made with Republican leaders to the threatening ultimatum he delivered to China against orders—the action that led directly to his downfall.
 
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  • Published: 23 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780425261217
  • Imprint: Dutton
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $36.00
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About the author

Bevin Alexander

Bevin Alexander is the author of eight books of military history, including How Wars Are Won, How Hitler Could Have Won World War II, and Lost Victories, which was named by the Civil War Book Review as one of the seventeen books that have most transformed Civil War scholarship. He was an adviser to the Rand Corporation for a recent study on future warfare and a participant in a recent war game simulation run by the Training and Doctrine Command of the U.S. Army. His battle studies of the Korean War, written during his decorated service as a combat historian, are stored in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. He lives in Bremo Bluff, Virginia.

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Praise for Macarthur's War

"A superbly-written, blow-by-blow account of the most controversial civil-military clash in American history." Colonel, ret. Jerry D. Morelock, PhD, Editor in Chief, Armchair General Magazine

"When President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of all his military commands at the height of the Korean War, it was a seminal moment in American history... Bevin Alexander's hard-hitting narrative captures in vivid detail the elements of that contest, as well as the chain of significant events that produced it... MACARTHUR'S WAR is a valuable account of a chapter in the Cold War that we must never forget." Harry J. Middleton, founding director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library at the University of Texas, and author of LBJ: The White House Years

"Bevin Alexander has written a stirring and insightful account of General Douglas MacArthur's controversial role in the Korean War that culminated...in one of the most dramatic incidents in American military history."--Carlo D'Este, author of Patton: A Genius For War

"A very interesting account of Douglas MacArthur's initial brilliant Inchon assault, his strategy and tactics that led to rapid advances before his concepts for capturing and freeing North Korea collapsed in defeat, and finally his resort to political confrontation with the President... a fascinating, factual and well-documented study."--General Frederick J. Kroesen, former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army and Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe