num_pages: 960
description: MacArthur was not only a lean, chiseled military genius and master of strategy; he also suffered unexplained lapses. For example, he knew of the Pearl Harbor attack but neglected to deploy his Philippine air force, a failure which resulted in its total destruction. And the success of his Inchon invasion was all but undone by the Chinese hordes that later swarmed across the Yalu--a response easily predicted, disastrously ignored. "AMERICAN CAESAR is gracefully written, impeccably researched and scrupulous in every way...a thrilling and profoundly ponderable piece of work." (Newsweek). 12 cassettes.
language: English
title: American Caesar
titlecomplete: American Caesar
genres: History, World War II, American History, Japan, Biography Memoir, War, Biography, Military History, Nonfiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 13472
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Biography and Autobiography (1979) & Biography (Paperback)
publisher: Dell