Description:
George C. Marshall: Statesman 1945-1959 (GCM #4)By Forrest C. Pogue
Hardcover Cloth 603 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Reprint edition 1987. Attractive cream colored boards with tan buckram 1/8 spine shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book shows some shelf wear; chips, bumped corners, stains to covers, stains to bottom edge. An unclipped dust jacket shows remainders of price tag and considerable shelf wear - a tears, scrapes, stains, scratches, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
In Statesman 1945-1949, the fourth and final volume of the authorized biography of George C. Marshall, Forrest C. Pogue gives us a unique view of the years immediately following World War II and a portrait of a man who, after a distinguished military career, went on to serve his country in even more indispensable ways as a statesman.On November 26, 1945, George C. Marshall retired after six years as U.S. Army Chief of Staff. one day… Read More