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The definitive account of General Douglas MacArthur's rise during World War II, from the author of the best seller The Admirals.
World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. Macarthur at War goes deeper into this transformative period of his life than previous biographies, drilling into the military strategy that Walter R. Borneman is so skilled at conveying and exploring how personality and ego translate into military successes and failures.
Architect of stunning triumphs and inexplicable defeats, General MacArthur is the most intriguing military leader of the 20th century. There was never any middle ground with MacArthur. This in-depth study of the most critical period of his career shows how MacArthur's influence spread far beyond the war-torn Pacific.
Reseñas de la Crítica
Finalist, Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History, 2017
"A first-rate account of its subject and an excellent history of the less-known half of the American experience in the Pacific."—Robert Messenger, Wall Street Journal
"More than any other book I have read, MacArthur at War gives readers a unique portrait of the great general with his almost incredible combination of admirable and detestable qualities. Nearly as important are the insights into unflappable General George C. Marshall, who managed MacArthur's gifts and flaws to wrest victory from near defeat in a global war."—Thomas Fleming, author of The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II
"The special quality of MacArthur at War is its combination of research in relevant literature and archives with a fairness of presentation and judgment often missing when MacArthur is the subject."—Gerhard L. Weinberg, History Book Club
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He is the most-decorated general in American history - and the only five-star general to receive the Medal of Honor. Yet Douglas MacArthur’s greatest victory was not in war but in peace. As the uniquely titled Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, he was charged with transforming a defeated, militarist empire into a beacon of peace and democracy - "the greatest gamble ever attempted", he called it.
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Compelling book in an pleasant voice
- De Pierke Bosschieter en 04-24-14
De: Seymour Morris
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Nimitz at War
- Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
- De: Craig L. Symonds
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
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Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz transformed the devastated and dispirited Pacific fleet into the most powerful and commanding naval force in history. Facing demands from Washington to mount an early offensive, he had first to revive the depressed morale of the thousands of sailors, soldiers, and Marines who served under him. And of course, he also confronted a formidable and implacable enemy in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Great
- De Jean en 12-14-22
De: Craig L. Symonds
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Douglas MacArthur
- American Warrior
- De: Arthur Herman
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
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Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also one of America's most divisive figures, a man whose entire career was steeped in controversy. Was he an avatar or an anachronism, a brilliant strategist or a vainglorious mountebank?
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Claims to be balanced... glosses over flaws
- De Us 5 Camp en 07-03-18
De: Arthur Herman
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Nimitz
- De: E. B. Potter
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
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Called a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II is considered the best book ever written about Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Highly respected by both the civilian and naval communities, Nimitz was sometimes overshadowed by more colorful warriors in the Pacific such as MacArthur and Halsey. Potter's lively and authoritative style fleshes out Admiral Nimitz's personality to help listeners appreciate the contributions he made as the principle architect of Japan's defeat.
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Spectacular Book
- De Darrell E. Fisher en 07-13-18
De: E. B. Potter
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American Caesar
- Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
- De: William Manchester
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 31 h y 53 m
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Virtually all Americans above a certain age hold strong opinions about Douglas MacArthur. They either worship him or despise him. Now, in this superb book, one of our most outstanding writers, after a meticulous three-year examination of the record, presents his startling insights about the man. The narrative is gripping, because the general's life was fascinating. It is moving, because he was a man of vision. It ends, finally, in tragedy, because his character, though majestic, was tragically flawed.
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A Great American
- De Charlotte A. Hu en 05-19-13
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The Admirals
- Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King - The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea
- De: Walter Borneman
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
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Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced, and together they led the U.S. Navy to victory in World War II, establishing the United States as the world's greatest fleet. In The Admirals, award-winning historian Walter R. Borneman tells their story in full detail for the first time.
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Fantastic Insight In To Another Side Of the War
- De K. Winters en 02-25-13
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Supreme Commander
- MacArthur's Triumph in Japan
- De: Seymour Morris
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
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He is the most-decorated general in American history - and the only five-star general to receive the Medal of Honor. Yet Douglas MacArthur’s greatest victory was not in war but in peace. As the uniquely titled Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, he was charged with transforming a defeated, militarist empire into a beacon of peace and democracy - "the greatest gamble ever attempted", he called it.
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Compelling book in an pleasant voice
- De Pierke Bosschieter en 04-24-14
De: Seymour Morris
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Nimitz at War
- Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
- De: Craig L. Symonds
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz transformed the devastated and dispirited Pacific fleet into the most powerful and commanding naval force in history. Facing demands from Washington to mount an early offensive, he had first to revive the depressed morale of the thousands of sailors, soldiers, and Marines who served under him. And of course, he also confronted a formidable and implacable enemy in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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- De Jean en 12-14-22
De: Craig L. Symonds
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The First World War
- De: John Keegan
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 20 h y 22 m
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The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the 20th century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times - modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society - and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment.
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Best Military History of First World War
- De Stephen F (SPFJR) en 06-13-19
De: John Keegan
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Neptune's Inferno
- The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
- De: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 18 h y 38 m
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With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America’s World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information. Now he does the same for the deadliest, most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war: Guadalcanal. Neptune’s Inferno is at once the most epic and the most intimate account ever written of the contest for control of the seaways of the Solomon Islands.
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The WWII Pacific Theater Explodes In My Lazy Chair
- De Rum Runner en 03-01-11
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Old Soldiers Never Die
- The Life of Douglas MacArthur
- De: Geoffrey Perret
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 29 h y 12 m
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Always colorful, always controversial, Douglas MacArthur is one of the dominant characters in American military history. Perret's groundbreaking biography, unmatched in its candor, authority and insight, reveals for the first time a complete and accurate account of MacArthur's tumultuous career.
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What I didn't know
- De Greg W. en 09-19-13
De: Geoffrey Perret
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Tin Can Titans
- The Heroic Men and Ships of World War II's Most Decorated Navy Destroyer Squadron
- De: John Wukovits
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
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When Admiral William Halsey selected Destroyer Squadron 21 to lead his victorious ships into Tokyo Bay to accept the Japanese surrender, it was the most battle-hardened US naval squadron of the war. But it was not the squadron of ships that had accumulated such an inspiring résumé; it was the people serving aboard them. Through diaries, personal interviews with survivors, and letters written to and by the crews during the war, preeminent historian of the Pacific theater John Wukovits brings to life the human story of the squadron and its men.
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Captivating
- De Jean en 09-23-17
De: John Wukovits
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
- The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
- De: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
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Told from the point of view of the men who waged this steel-shattering battle, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors captures Navy pilots attacking enemy battleships with makeshift weapons and sacrificial valor, a veteran commander improvising tactics never taught in Annapolis, and young crews from across America rising to an impossible challenge.
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Outstanding
- De John en 04-17-04
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The Rising Sun
- The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
- De: John Toland
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 41 h y 9 m
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened - muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox."
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A political as well as military history
- De Mike From Mesa en 07-30-15
De: John Toland
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- Kym
- 05-07-21
A Balanced View
For me, this author brings together the many disparate views, opinions, hearsay and facts that cloak this enigmatic character and gives a beautifully balanced narrative supported by a thoughtful and measured reading.
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- JAMES RHOADS
- 02-09-23
Excellent book about a complicated man
The book was excellent. MacArthur was a very complicated man. The book goes into his personality and his relationships with other high ranking officers. He was courageous but also had an ego that sometimes got in his way. But it is true that without him the war I the Pacific would have had a higher casualty count than it did.
I’ve heard it said by veterans of WWII that when it came to MacArthur, you either loved or hated him. He was a puzzle, but a great general.
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- Mike From Mesa
- 07-29-16
An interesting, but flawed, history
I believed when I first saw this book that it concerned itself with MacArthur’s military actions during World War II and I assumed it to be an analysis of how he fought his campaigns, the setbacks and successes and his military approach. While some of that is covered that is not what this book is primarily about. Instead this book spends a great deal of time discussing MacArthur’s failing - his tendency to exaggerate his problems, his imperiousness and mild paranoia and his grandstanding. Very little time is spent analyzing his military successes although considerable time is spent doing so with his failures.
Anyone who has read about Douglas MacArthur knows that he was a complex and varied person - part military strategist, part self promoter, part actor and always very ambitious, and the same can be said of other colorful military figures during World War II - George Patton and Bernard Montgomery foremost among them. Leadership is not always a simple and straight forward thing. George Patton was flamboyant and colorful, always acting for his troops and always a self promoter. Bernard Montgomery was equally colorful and believed himself to be the only one who really understood how to fight the war. Douglas MacArthur was no different, although perhaps he was a bit more successful at some of his failings than the others.
The book attempts to be a fair and balanced history of MacArthur during World War II, but fails in that attempt as the bias of the author is clear. The writing is full of phrases like “It was almost as if” when referring to MacArthur’s actions, his conversations are often called “tirades”, his responses to reports called “rants” and “lectures”. A great amount of time is spent on his failures, especially his failure to properly prepare for the initial Japanese attack against Luzon and the failure to properly stockpile food for the retreat into Bataan and Corregidor, and rightly so, but this is rarely balanced with a similar discussion concerning his successes. In addition the author seems to assume he knows what was going on in MacArthur’s mind during several incidents during the war and is inconsistent in his writing about Eddie Rickenbacker’s trip to see MacArthur during the war. This meeting, which the author refers to in two places in the book, is first qualified to make clear that no one knows, to this day, what message Rickenbacker was taking to MacArthur from Washington but, in the second reference the author assumes he does know and states so without even seeming to understand the inconsistency. He is clearly guessing, but treats his guesses as facts.
On the other hand the book seems to have been meticulously researched and small details that I have never seen in any other book concerning MacArthur’s actions are described so, for the first time, I was able to understand why food was not properly stockpiled in Corregidor before the retreat, why MacArthur’s planes were caught on the ground in the initial Japanese attack and why MacArthur wrongly assumed the number of Japanese soldiers he would have to fight upon his return to the Philippines. So, in some ways, the book provides a welcome addition to my knowledge of MacArthur’s actions during World War II, although some of what is written has to be taken with the understanding of what appears to be the author’s bias concerning his subject.
The book ends with MacArthur’s landing in Japan to take up his duties as Supreme Commander in Japan at the end of World War II and thus does not cover his work there, nor his leadership during the Korean War nor Truman’s dismissal of him, and the resulting firestorm, during that war.
The book is narrated by David Baker who does an excellent job. In rating this book I have tried to balance the clearly articulate writing and the new information against what I see as the author’s bias toward his subject. Had I been able to I would have given the book 3 1/2 stars but, since that is not possible, I have given it 4 stars, giving the author the benefit of the doubt. As a word of caution to readers I would mention that it is helpful to read William Manchester’s book “American Caesar” to get a different view of Douglas MacArthur and his role during World War II.
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- Valerie Virkler
- 05-22-20
Valuable and Inspiring
Borneman is thorough in his research and balanced in his conclusions. This is a well-written account of a complex, interesting man.
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- Ron P
- 01-17-18
Not quite 'The Admirals', but . . .
My first observation is that I've yet to find what feels to me like a fair evaluation of what and who MacArthur was. I've read American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior, Old Soldiers Never Die, and Supreme Commander. I've not committed as much time and energy to any other figure in history, not so much because I think he deserves it, but because I still am not sure what to make of him.
I picked up this book because I found Borneman's 'The Admirals' to be a compelling read of history. This was good, but it didn't achieve what that one did. What I liked about MacArthur At War is that most of the assertions are supported by historical citations in the book. For instance, you'll get any number of interpretations of MacArthur's meeting with FDR, Leahy, and Nimitz in Hawaii in various books, but Borneman, unlike most, includes observations and comments from those attending (as opposed to just MacArthur in the hagiographies, or MacArthur's critics in the hatchet jobs). Most of the observations and interpretations in the book are like this. It's not just an editorial -- there's history in here.
The biggest drawback to this book is that it stops with WWII. Obviously, it calls that out on the cover of the book -- it's not designed to be an assessment of his entire career. That said, what follows WWII (the Japanese occupation and Korea) are the most compelling elements of MacArthur's legacy; one a triumph, one a disgrace.
The other drawback is that it is, on balance, still pretty negative about MacArthur. Which is not to say that a negative assessment of a historical figure is a bad thing, but merely that those examples of unsupported assertions of fact in this book are almost uniformly negative. It's obvious that Borneman doesn't think much of MacArthur overall, but even worse, in his effort to be a balanced biographer, it sometimes feels like he's bending over backwards to give MacArthur credit in other areas -- which feels artificial.
All that said, I learned more about MacArthur the military man from this book than any other I've read. American Caesar is a more comprehensive picture of the man MacArthur might've been, but I think this is a superior book. I'll be watching for a 2nd volume from Borneman on MacArthur's later life.
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- Demoyung
- 07-18-23
Comprehensive
Overall very thorough and detailed. In a few cases some of the details seemed a little trivial.
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- Warf
- 06-11-17
MacArthur are war.
the real story about a man we didn't know. a must read book. Not the God that we thought.
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- Byron J. Swafford
- 10-20-17
American Caesar
While a great General in WW2, I found it interesting to note that he lacked forward thinking, new ideas for battle, and advanced warfare very little. Unlike many German Generals, he isn’t known for anything new. Refusing at the start of the War to acknowledge that HE needed to grasp the New War strategy and combining tactics of the whole Armed Forces to win a World War, and get along with them while doing it. I think Napoleon would have quoted Wellington in saying... “ he came on in the same old way, and we defeated him...in the same old way. Had he been in France at the start of the War commanding troops, very little would have been different for General Doug. He definitely did not have the forward thinking in battle to stop a Blitzkrieg any more than the lame British and French Commanders. That Japan never went “all in” in multiple battles on land and sea led more to their defeat that General Doug.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-06-19
you can do better...
The next time you write a book on history you may want to omit your own biased opinions. Your title could of easily been, "Reasons I Do Not Dugout Doug".
You are better than this.
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- susan whitlock
- 02-29-24
Hit piece on MacArthur
It seems according to this book MacArthur was incompetent and a bumbling idiot who never won at anything. Just not sure how he could have done nothing positive and stayed in uniform
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