As the U.S. Army's 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 Truman's Secretary of State, and later as his Secretary of Defence 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.
- ISBN10 0815410425
- ISBN13 9780815410423
- Publish Date 6 August 2000 (first published 17 May 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 864
- Language English