MacArthur's war
Subtitle: Korea and the undoing of an American hero
By: Stanley Weintraub
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Korean War, 1950-1953
Description: "Historian Stanley Weintraub offers an 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 MacAruthur 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 tale in the voices of its participants."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-374) and index.