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Part One Of Two PartsMacArthur 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)
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A True American Hero & The Last Shogun of Japan.......2007-09-21
I could not put the book down... Douglas MacArthur's life from beginning to end was so interesting... His life had meaning... Say anything you wish about his personality but his accomplishments during his life will never be out done... Well written book.. and well worth reading...
ON BEING "DUGOUT DOUG".......2007-05-23
General Douglas MacArthur is one of the few military figures in American history who, even today, evokes heated partisan responses. The title of the headline for this piece clearly tells where this writer is on the partisan divide. The nickname "Dugout Doug" goes back to the days when after the Japanese invasion of the Philippines General MacArthur got himself out of harm's way, with a due fanfare, while his subordinates and the troops for the most part got left behind to face the brunt of the Japanese forces. It was not pretty. This story and many others are detailed in the late journalist William Manchester's biography of the general.
The history of the United States has produced a few military figures who were flamboyant. It has also produced a fair number with some military skills. It is, however, unusual to have the two come together as they did in the self-advertised grandeur of MacArthur. Europe has had some familiarity with the `man on horse back'. One thinks of France, in particular. In America that notion, at least publicly, has not been presented by military leaders while in uniform. MacArthur was an exception. Manchester is not incorrect to see that if there were such a candidate for the role of Caesar (or its modern variant, Bonaparte) in the United States MacArthur by skill, élan and appetite fit the bill. That thread runs through the whole story line here.
No one can question that MacArthur had exceptional military skill in both World Wars, especially his role in the Pacific in World War II. One, however, should note, and note carefully his role in dispersing the Bonus Army in Washington, D.C. in the early 1930's. That might provide a taste of what the American Caesar had in store if he ever took power. Furthermore, one should note that MacArthur was well out of his element when he faced essentially `unconventional' armies in Korea. Call it `limited warfare' if you will but he totally underestimated his North Korean and Chinese opposites in the age of new `warfare'. Later American generals faced, and are today facing, similar conditions. And making the same wrong estimation. That MacArthur's reputation has mainly survived his Korea debacle owes more to hubris, including his own, than reality. In any case, read this book to get a flavor of the old American Army and its most well known general.
must be read, an american treasure.......2007-01-18
william manchester & his work are a national treasure. i picked this up after being blown away by manchester's 3-volume churchhill series.
few historians can produce a work like this that's both painstakingly researched & scholarly and so well-written and absorbing. be it churchhill or maccarthur, manchester always takes the long view in terms of how his subject fits in the pantheon of great leaders.
this volume about america's greatest general of the last century provides both a great history of the time period (wwi-korea) as well as a colorful & in-depth look at one of the great personalities of american history. as with churchhill, macarthur is complex, courageous, brilliant and flawed.
Well Researched & Written.......2006-03-05
This is perhaps the best biography of an American ever written. Manchester juxtaposes the good MacArthur (the military genius and patriotic family man) with the bad MacArthur (the megalomaniacal general whose lapse led to his entire air force being destoryed on the ground at Leyte; not even his wife called him "Douglas"). MacArthur is still one of the most polarizing figures in American history; I have spoken to WW2 and Korean veterans who either love him or hate him. This book is a study of greatness. No matter your opinion of MacArthur, one cannot deny the fact that he graduated from West Point with one of the highest averages ever, or how his post-war control of Japan shaped that nation's history. An excellent look into the life of an American Hero/Villain.
history or prophecy.......2006-02-01
I bow to my colleagues who have observed Manchester's acquired taste for the MacArthurian mystique and the apparent failures of historians (not just Willam M.) on getting it right regarding The General's ego and its fallout in combat. Yes this stuff is significant, but all this overlooks one outstanding reality, that Manchester includes but does give the proper emphasis: Doug MacArthur wanted to be president, very, very badly. He truly saw himself as a caesar-like figure in history and positioned himself in returning to the Philipines, administering post-war Japan, and taking the baton in Korea (at the age of 70) for a return to the US in "triumph." Instead he bowed out after being fired by Truman, who had nothing to lose by relieving him.
This book is an enormous achievement, necessary for a student of modern history, but Manchester misses a golden opportunity to build a dramatic effect when giving the account of the final years of MacArthur's public life by passing over these events and not leaning on their true meaning.
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Highly readable bio of the enigmatic/self-assured general.......2007-07-23
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Manchester's biography of the great General. Manchester writes in great detail about Mac's early history of West Point and his great successes in WWI. He covers Mac's early marriage to his first wife and how he tried to hide his affairs from his mother. Very interesting.
Then, we are treated to his great island-hopping tactics in the Pacific during WWII, and then it's on to Korea.
I enjoyed the book even though many consider it too praise-worthy of Mac. That was one of things I enjoyed...that it was praise-worthy of the general, but that it did cover some interesting points (some not so good) about the general...like his hero-worship of his mother; his obstinancy at wanting to do this his way (his arrogance...but that it most always seemed to work out); his infighting with President Truman and more. With respect to the Korean conflict, Manchester did not go into specific details with respect to the war itself, but dealt more with Mac's fighting with Truman and some of his disrepect for his civilian boss.
I think it unfortunate that we do not have more generals of his caliber. This book makes you appreciate the generals we did have that brought us through a terrible global conflict. His comments about Vietnam and fighting wars to win are most appropriate even today, especially considering the threat we have from terrorists today.
An excellent book and worthy as an addition to any library.
Very well done........2007-02-26
One of the first Military leader bio's I read - back in high school - and still one of the finest.
A Great Biography.......2006-10-10
William Manchester is one of the greatest biographers to have put pen to paper, and his portrait of Douglas MacArthur is another fine example. The Second World War was replete with genius, many were said to have it; Churchill, Roosevelt, Patton, Marshall, Rommel, Eisenhower, the list goes on. William Manchester has written biographies of the two most unique men from amongst the many that period produced, Douglas MacArthur being one, and his more well known two-volume work on Churchill.
It is still debated today, was MacArthur the real deal, or some kind of media hype? Manchester ably fills in the blanks, from MacArthur's service in WW I, to his time at West Point, the Philippines, and on from Australia through to his stewardship of occupied Japan, and later the Korean War. Manchester leaves no doubt that MacArthur was the real deal, he was of all commanders during the Second World War the most economic in terms of casualties. Rather than go straight at 'em like Patton, MacArthur out-maneuvered and flanked his opponents in the Pacific, utilizing combinations of amphibious and aerial tactics that others soon copied. As successful as the Normandy invasion turned out to be, several military historians instead cite MacArthur's amphibious assault on Inchon to be the finest of its kind, as an assault on a fortified harbor was reckoned impossible after Dieppe. Like many great men MacArthur had his flaws, but it is notable how many who were under his command also rose to greatness, Eisenhower amongst them. Many of the innovations that MacArthur introduced are still in use today, the Katusa program in Korea (Korean augmentee to the US Army) or the physical education program at West Point. There is no more thorough or readable account of one of the most interesting American military leaders.
Unflinching look at our greatest soldier.......2006-09-17
William Manchester mentioned in the acknowledgements that Jean MacArthur was a contributor, but did not see the manuscript before publication. There was a good reason for this: he didn't want people to think she agreed with his criticisms of General MacArthur, her husband. The book, as a matter of fact, was equally unflinching in its criticisms of the great general as it was in its praise of his outstanding work as probably our greatest soldier ever.
Here was a man that was much bigger than life. He was always on stage, completely fearless, a military genius, winner of almost a dozen medals including the Medal of Honor, and an entrancing speaker with the poetic style and the presence of the great actor John Barrymore. (By the way, he and his father are the only father/son to win Medals of Honor. His father won his at age 18 in the Civil War.) He was all but worshipped in Japan as he led their astonishing reconstruction after WWII, and earlier in the Philippines as he freed them from Japanese occupation. In fact, even today in the Philippines, some barracks still call his name for roll call and he is declared as 'present in spirit'. His conduct of the Pacific War in WWII was nothing short of amazing, as he dazzled with his daring courage, speed, and knowledge of the terrain. But after 14 years abroad, he was relieved of command because of battles with the Truman Administration over the scope and goals of the Korean War; the Administration was understandably alarmed at his proposals of starting a nuclear war, or of utilizing nuclear waste as a line of defense, with the Communist Chinese. On his return to the US, he was lionized everywhere as he took his victory lap and millions lined the streets just to get a glimpse of him.
It's hard to get know the real MacArthur, but you can't help admiring the man despite his gigantic ego. He was one of a kind in American history, and maybe even world history. This book does a great job of giving you the straight, unflinching dope on him, both good and bad.
Flawed genius or brillant fool?.......2006-08-01
This is a very well written and highly readable biography of a phenomenon of a man. Maybe the most brillant military leader of all times, despite some failures in a long career, and despite competition from big names (Napoleon? Caesar?).
It is also a very recommendable short history of WWII in the Pacific Theater, the Japanese aftermath, and the Korean War. Focus on the Philippines exit and re-entry, the Japan reconstruction, the Korea desaster, of course. Just the coverage of the Philippines makes it worth reading, if you are interested in that part of the world. Specially the thoughts on collaboration by the elite with the occupation forces.
The chapter on Japan is very intense and gives a very good insight in the situation after the war. It is however a little short on actual biographical material from that time.
And it contains a short para that puzzles me a lot: Manchester says that Japan, contrary to Germany, changed in reaction to the disclosures of their war crimes. Now that comes as a surprise. I would have thought it was the other way around, with Japan still largely in denial even today, while Germany has been doing their best to repent.
The Korean war part is of course high drama, not just for the war, but mainly for the fights between DMA and the administration of Truman.
It is not a definite biography anyway, because it is just too short. That may be hard to believe with a 850 pages book, but consider that the first 60 years of the man are covered by just about 20% of the book. I am not at all critical of these first 60 years' coverage, they are very well covered, but clearly not with the intention of a full biography. There are so many open questions about MacArthur's Mexican adventures before WWI, then about his WWI heroics, his West Point leadership, his Olympics Sidestep (Amsterdam 28), his years as Chief of Staff, even his pre-war years in the Philippines.
The failure to react adequately to Pearl Harbour is maybe not lending itself to deeper analysis. It was what it was, a failure to grasp a new situation. Still, it remains an amazing black out for a military genius.
Considering that the man might have made it to the presidency, as Ike did, leaves me with a feeling of relief: thanks God, he failed. Despite his apparent political wisdom in handling Japan, he does not appear to be a real political animal.
His negative personal traits are scary: the inability to admit mistakes, the tendency to lie if the truth does not please (e.g. when denying during the Korean War that he had 10 years earlier welcomed the Soviet entry into the war against Japan), the majestic immodesty. Continuous insubordination, a major theme in the story of this life, is not so much a negative trait, as a puzzling aspect of this bit of history. Surprising that he got away with it for so long.
I do not at all want to indicate that I see MacArthur all negative, absolutely not. But it seems to me that we were lucky with "little man" Harry Truman, who managed not to blow the world to pieces when he could have done that easily, and when MacArthur might have.
Muddling through is not exactly satisfying, but can have better results than the direttissima.
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American Caesar (Part B): Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964: Library Edition
William Manchester
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The British Army was the first to use tanks, employing a handful of early models during the closing stages of the Battle of the Somme, September 1916. But it was over a year later that the first mass tank attack demonstrated just what a revolutionary weapon this was. On 20 November 1917, just as the bloody slaughter at Passchendaele reached stalemate, the British flung 378 tanks at the German trenches at Cambrai. T
hey overran the whole position in a morning. The victory was so incredible that church bells were sounded throughout the British Isles.
However, the subsequent German counter-attack was successful. The British ran out of reserves and the frontline was retaken. Yet Cambrai anticipated the events of 1918: the Germans had no answer to the British Army's new weapon and new artillery tactics. No subsequent British offensive failed to take its objectives.
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Dated, But of Interest.......2005-04-05
First published in 1967, The Ironclads of Cambrai (TIOC) shows its age just a bit. The author's style is a bit plodding and is characterized by that tedious style of military writing which goes something like "...and then the 1st Battalion moved forward to the ridge and then it moved down the ridge and by noon it had reached the bottom of the ridge. After a brief skirmish, the Battalion started off again at 1 PM and moved..." -- a style that focuses on the travel of individual units with little regard to the implications and context of the evolving battle.
On the other hand, TIOC presents a nicely done introdution to the invention of the tank and its operational birth with the Tank Corps. It does present the tank's halting first steps into battle and convincingly highlights the tank's first major impact in an operational sense at the Battle of Cambrai.
The author gets a bit hung up on fixing blame for the disappointing results of the battle and gets a bit deep in recounting the German counterattack -- "...and then the battalion retreated to the woods, where after replusing two serious attacks, it continued to retreat to the road. Two hours passing, the battalion again moved to the rear, ending that days movement near the farm."
All, in all TIOC was a decent read and a nice introduction to the beginning of tank warfare. It was a mediocre accounting of the battle of Cambrai.
The Successful Experiment.......2003-03-02
The Ironclads of Cambrai: The First Great Tank Battle was written in 1967 and re-issued by Cassell in 2002. This book has weathered the last 35 years fairly well and is still a valuable and insightful account of the Battle of Cambrai in 1917. Of all the battles of the First World War, Cambrai stands out not for its size, duration or the casualties but rather, due to the first successful use of armor on the operational level of warfare. Although tanks had seen limited, tactical employment for over a year before Cambrai, they had not yet been employed in large numbers or on favorable terrain. The Ironclads of Cambrai is also an excellent thumbnail history of the birthing pains of the British Tank Corps and the difficulties in introducing a new weapon system in the midst of a major war. The author also covers the German counterattack that snatched victory away from the British at the last moment. Overall, The Ironclads of Cambrai is an excellent account of this landmark operation, suited both for military professionals or the general public.
The Ironclads of Cambrai consists of fifteen chapters, beginning with several on the creation of the Tank Corps and early actions in Flanders. The author provides considerable detail on the development of the plan for the attack at Cambrai, beginning with the efforts by tank enthusiasts to mount an operation that would validate the combat effectiveness of the new weapon. Interestingly, the British chose the Cambrai sector where the German Hindenburg Line defenses were thickest but the ground was suitable. Apparently, the Germans had begun to believe that their defenses in this sector were indeed impregnable and did not react seriously to indications of a British offensive. The Ironclads of Cambrai provides a clear example of the Clausewitzian dialectic in action; the Germans dug extra-wide trenches to inhibit tank attacks but the British developed "fascines" to fill in the trenches. Indeed, the Germans were so smug about the ability of their wire and trenches to stop British tank attacks that they neglected to issue much armor-piercing ammunition to the front-line units near Cambrai. The author's narrative is also supported by many simple, but effective sketch maps.
Obviously the author's main argument is that Cambrai demonstrated that tanks offered a way out of the deadlock of trench warfare. Cooper is fervently pro-tank throughout the book and delights in exposing the numerous British officers who criticized tanks before Cambrai. There is little doubt that the first six hours of the British attack on 20 November 1917 stunned both sides; three front-line German divisions were routed at small cost but the British had not really anticipated such rapid movement. Unfortunately, the British plan began unravel from the start due to a variety of factors. Foremost, one of the British division commanders (Harper of the 51st) - a tank-hater - mis-used his armor and his unit was held up long enough to interfere with the units on either flank. Although Cooper doesn't attach much importance to it, the British failure to adequately plan for engineering assets to help get tanks across the Canal de l'Escaut was a major factor inducing culmination in the British attack. However, Cooper does differ from some other accounts of Cambrai that cite the lack of sufficient reserves as the reason the attack failed to reach Cambrai. Cooper notes, "the lack of reserves was undoubtedly a vital factor at Cambrai, but it can be over-emphasized...there were more reserves available; but the Higher Command were not willing to make use of them for the initial attack." Rather, Cooper believes that, "the mistakes made were mainly due to an inability to understand and exploit a fight in open country...after three years of stagnant trench warfare."
Easily the best part of The Ironclads of Cambrai is the number of first-person accounts from tankers. Despite their terrifying appearance to the German defenders, the early Mark IV tanks were virtually deaf and blind. One commander noted that, "once we started there was no co-operation between tanks, no tactics, no external command - only the objectives we had been given and the method of attack we had been taught during training." Visibility outside the tank was extremely limited through tiny slits and some of the armor was not entirely bulletproof. Oftentimes, German fire produced "spalling" or scabbing of the armor inside the tanks, requiring the crews to wear chain-mail face masks and body protection. Cooper also describes the various German ad hoc anti-tank tactics developed at Cambrai, ranging from throwing sandbags full of grenades under the tracks (successful), to jumping atop the tanks (fatal), to infantrymen attempting to hang on to the barrels of the tank's weapons (foolish).
Finally, Cooper spends the last couple of chapters discussing the German counterattack on 30 November 1917 that threw the British back on their heels. Most of the tanks were withdrawn by this stage, but those remaining played a major role in preventing a British catastrophe. Cooper is particularly scathing in detailing the whitewash effort by the court of inquiry after the battle, which blamed junior officers for the collapse instead of the complacent 3rd Army Commander (Gough). While Cambrai's glory turned sour for most in the wake of this turnabout, Cooper sees the battle as a vital step in establishing the credibility of the Tank Corps. Without Cambrai, the tanks might have remained a marginal weapon, used only in small numbers. Instead, Cambrai showed what large numbers of tanks could achieve under favorable circumstances and is best viewed as a successful experiment.
A refreshing change.......2003-02-26
This book is an important reminder of how much the battlefields of WW1 changed from the slaughter of the Somme/Verdun and how the generals were finally grasping the importance of the Tank and mobile warfare. Although Cambrai itself gained little in terms of territory it provided a blueprint to the Allies on how to fight future battles.
The fact that the tank was comming to the Western Front in ever increasing numbers would prove a death knel to imperial Germany. Whilst the comming arrival of American troops (who never really contributed to any overwhelming defeat of Germany) was on the German high command's radar; it was this opperation that forced the Germans to launch the disasterous "Kaiser's Battle" before British warfare adapted to a point where Germany could no longer defeat them. The book is packed with detail on who supported (Winston Churchill amongst others) this new method of warfare and who opposed it. An interesting addition to a military historians collection.
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Médecins sans Frontières; Fabrice Weissman (Editor)
During the planning stages of military intervention in Iraq, humanitarian organizations were offered U.S. government funds to join the Coalition and operate under the umbrella of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Nongovernmental organizations had previously been asked to join in "just wars" in Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan, wars initiated by Western powers against oppressive regimes or armed groups. Many aid organizations cooperated eagerly.
Few Afghans regret the eclipse of the Taliban, or Sierra Leoneans the stabilization of their country after British military intervention in 2000. However, the incidental victims of these triumphs, those on the "wrong" side, are soon forgotten. Humanitarian organizations are duty-bound to save these people, although in so doing they must remain independent of the warring parties and not support the "struggle against evil" or any other political agenda.
Then there are places where the pretense of providing assistance allows donor governments to disguise their support for local political powers. Millions in North Korea, Angola, and Sudan have starved to death because of the diversion and unequal distribution of huge quantities of food aid. There are also those whose sacrifice is politically irrelevant in the wider picture of international relations—the victims of brutal wars in Algeria, Chechnya, and Liberia, for instance, where what little international aid is available is subsumed by the adversaries' desire to wage total war, to exterminate entire populations.
In this book, international experts and members of Médecins Sans Frontières analyze the way these issues have crystallized over the five years spanning the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. They make the case for a renewed commitment to an old ideal: a humanitarianism that defies a politics of expendable lives.
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Analysis of current aid moviations and applications.......2005-05-30
This collection of essays brought together by Medecins Sans Frontieres intends to help readers explore the current state of international "humanitarian" aid in the wake of the "just wars" that were fought on humanitarian pretexts in the Balkans last decade.
Contrary to what government officials prefer to brag, most humanitarian aid is not humanitarian at all, but is an extension of politics. This work expounds on that theme, implying that the "just wars" of the last decade were the demise of truly independent and humanitarian work. In keeping with this theme, the essays in this book, with the exception of one or two, delve into the politics of a complex emergency and explore how the international community has failed to live up to the humanitarian ideal -- either by abstaining from involvement or manipulating aid.
There is particular focus on Africa, since the cases were chosen by ranking complex emergencies according to their cost in human lives, and focusing on the most serious. This annoyed me to an extent because the essays on the African conflicts tend to give tremendous amounts of information in only small amounts of space. By the time the reader covers three or four of the African conflicts, he cannot help but jumble and confuse the names of the main players and the acronyms of the liberation armies.
Also, several different authors all seem to use the same words and have the same style of writing. At first I suspected some sort of conspiracy on the part of MSF, but then I realized that most of the essays were probably written in foreign languages then later translated by Fabrice Weissman into English. The result is that I began to tire of the book's style and diction halfway through. One word in particular -- I forget which -- must have been used twenty or thirty times, despite not being a commonly used word. The soporific effect of this phenomenon cannot be overlooked in evaluating the book's merit.
By the end, however, every reader should at least be more informed about the civil wars taking place in Africa. And he should also be able to more critically assess news reports describing humanitarian emergencies and humanitarian assistance. Thus the book does deliver some reward, although each of these messages is better articulated by David Rieff in his book "A Bed for the Night."
I would recommend this collection only for those with a deep interest in humanitarian aid.
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