Generals in the Making: How Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Their Peers Became the Commanders Who Won World War II

by Benjamin Runkle

Book Overview

Shakespeare famously wrote that some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Part military history and part group biography, Generals in the Making tells the amazing true story of how George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, and their peers became the greatest generation of senior commanders in military history. As the U.S. Army's triumphant homecoming from World War I was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811738507
• ISBN13: 9780811738507
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 8.9"