Volume 16, Number 8 · May 6, 1971
Officers and Gentlemen
By William A. Williams
The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle
by J. Glenn Gray
Harper Torchbook, 242 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Military Men
by Ward Just
Knopf, 252 pp., $6.95
The Years of MacArthur Volume I: 1880-1941
by D. Clayton James
Houghton Mifflin, 768 pp., $12.50
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: The War Years
edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Johns Hopkins, 5 volumes and Index, 3110 pp., $75.00
Dear General: Eisenhower's Wartime Letters to Marshall
edited by Joseph Patrick Hobbs
Johns Hopkins, 255 pp., $10.00
The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Doubleday, 732 pp., $10.00
At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends
by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Doubleday, 400 pp., $7.95
Pentagon Capitalism: The Political Economy of War
by Seymour Melman
McGraw-Hill, 288 pp., $8.50
The Military-Industrial Complex
by Sidney Lens
The Pilgrim Press and The National Catholic Reporter, 183 pp., $2.95 (paper)
You can work through these books (or any others on the military) as many times as you choose, but there remains only one place to begin any discussion—with the two challenges posed by J. Glenn Gray at the end of The Warriors.
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