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182) MacArthur Park
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Jolene and Verna's lives are inextricable from each other's; they share complicated bonds of friendship that have crystallized over time. When Verna marries her old friend's ex-husband, it seems that their paths have finally diverged. Jolene makes her way as a successful artist, traveling the world and demanding attention while Verna writes from her home near MacArthur Park where she and Vincent hope to spend the rest of their lives with their two...
Author
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"One of America's most controversial generals, Douglas MacArthur’s rise through the U.S. Army’s ranks was meteoric. However, he did not lead large formations of men in combat until he assumed command of forces in the Philippines in 1941. When war commenced with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, MacArthur’s performance on the battlefield was a failure: he underestimated the Japanese, and his poorly trained forces were outmaneuvered and outfought by...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Gandhi & Churchill goes beyond the mythologies of the World War II general to illuminate his strengths and weaknesses, placing his career against a backdrop of history while discussing how he shaped his character to meet national needs,"--NoveList.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From master storyteller and historian H.W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter about the possible use of atomic weapons in response to China's...
Author
Series
Texas A&M University military history volume 87
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated with elegant neoclassical buildings, spacious parks, and home to thousands of U.S. servicemen and business executives who enjoyed the relaxed pace of the tropics. The outbreak of the war, however, brought an end to the good life. General Douglas MacArthur, hoping to protect the Pearl of the Orient, declared the Philippine capital an open city and evacuated his forces. The Japanese...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It had been two and a half difficult years since General Douglas MacArthur had reluctantly obeyed a presidential order to abandon his American and Filipino forces on the Bataan Peninsula and slip away to Australia to organize the Allied resistance. From Australia, he had famously vowed to return to liberate the Philippines. And the people had believed his vow, their faith in him almost spiritual. Believers snuck out at night to paint his words on...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed military historian presents this powerful history of four military leaders--Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, George Marshall and Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower--who exhibited unparalleled military leadership that led the U.S. victoriously through two World Wars
Author
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"As the only single-volume work to offer a full account of Navy and Marine Corps actions in the Philippines during World War II, this book provides a unique source of information on the early part of the war. It is filled with never-before-published details about the fighting, based on a rich collection of American and newly discovered Japanese sources, and includes a revealing discussion of the buildup of tensions between Gen. Douglas MacArthur and...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
The true story of three intrepid people who successfully eluded the Japanese in Manila for more than two years, sabotaging enemy efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur's return. One was a debonair polo-playing expatriate businessman who was also a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. Another was a defiant enlisted American soldier. And the third was a wily American woman, an intinerant torch singer with many names and almost as many husbands. With...
198) War at the end of the world: Douglas MacArthur and the forgotten fight for New Guinea, 1942-1945
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his leadership of the second largest air force in the USAAF is often overlooked. When World War II ended, the three numbered air forces (the Fifth, Thirteenth and Seventh) under his command possessed 4,004 combat aircraft, 433 reconnaissance aircraft, and 922 transports. After being humbled by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942,...
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