Volume 54, Number 18 · November 22, 2007
How They Won
By Max Hastings
Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace
by Mark Perry
Penguin, 472 pp., $29.95
15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Savedthe American Century
by Stanley Weintraub
Free Press, 541 pp., $30.00
To become one of history's great commanders, the first essential is to be born at the right time, around half a century before a big war. Countless aspirant Washingtons and Marlboroughs, Lees and Wellingtons, have moldered away their lives on obscure military posts, for lack of opportunity to display their capabilities on a battlefield.
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