Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace

by Mark Perry

Overview

A unique look at the complex relationship between two of America's foremost World War II leaders

The first book ever to explore the relationship between George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower, Partners in Command eloquently tackles a subject that has eluded historians for years. As Mark Perry charts the crucial impact of this duo on victory in World War II and later as they lay the foundation for triumph in the Cold War, he shows us an unlikely, complex collaboration at the heart of decades of successful American foreign policy-and shatters many of the myths that have evolved about these two great men and the issues that tested their alliance. As exciting to read as it is vitally informative, this work is a signal accomplishment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780143113850
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/29/2008
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	512
Sales rank:	918,277
Product dimensions:	5.47(w) x 8.36(h) x 1.11(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Mark Perry’s books include Conceived in Liberty, a main selection of the History Book Club. An award-winning writer, he has written on history, the Middle East conflict, and American foreign policy for numerous magazines and newspapers.

PRAISE FOR MARK PERRY:

“Mark Perry…has made their dual biography the basis for an ambitious book, a history of the North and South from before the war to the end of Reconstruction. That he succeeds so well is remarkable.”
- The New York Times Book Review

“A thoughtful, moving, and wonderfully readable account of two valiant men, the war that brought them together, and the ideologies that ultimately kept them apart.”
- Cleveland Plain Dealer

What People are Saying About This

Kai Bird

Mark Perry's gracefully written dual biography informs us that as young army officers George C. Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower were wisely taught 'never fight unless you have to, never fight alone, and never fight for long.' Perry casts the Marshall-Eisenhower partnership in a new, personal light, vividly recreating the stark choices facing two of America's most brilliant World War II strategists. Partners in Command is both a formidable achievement in biography and an engrossing account of the dark imponderables of total warfare.(Kai Bird, co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer)

Editorial Reviews

? Plumb[s] the human side of the relationship between Marshall and Eisenhower.?
?"The Washington Post"



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From the Publisher

A noteworthy military analyst brings to light an important World War II alliance. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

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