The Years of MacArthur, Volume 1
This first volume of a trilogy dedicated to the life of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur covers the years from his birth in 1880 until America's entry into World War II in 1941. MacArthur, the son of a Medal of Honor winning Union officer during the Civil War, is himself a brilliant, egotistical, vainglorious man who is his father's equal as a military leader. After graduating first in his class from West Point, he rises from relative obscurity in...