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1) MacArthur
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A biographical drama of one of the most controversial public figures of his time, General Douglas MacArthur.
2) The typist
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190 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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Assigned to post-World War II Japan in the first year of the occupation, military typist Van finds his distinctly Western values tested by the culture, his duties as a babysitter for General MacArthur's son, and startling news from his young war bride.
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English
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Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall. These three remarkable men-of-arms who rose from the gruesome hell of the First World War to become the finest generals of their generation during World War II redefined America's ideas of military leadership and brought forth a new generation of American soldier. Against the backdrop of the most dramatic moments of the twentieth century,...
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xxv, 542 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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An acclaimed military historian presents this powerful history of four military leaders--Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, George Marshall and Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower--who exhibited unparalleled military leadership that led the U.S. victoriously through two World Wars
By the first half of the twentieth century, technology had transformed warfare into a series of intense bloodbaths in which the line between soldiers and civilians was obliterated....
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1 videodisc (30 min.) : sound color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1932, in the darkest days of the Depression, unemployed World War I veterans marched on Washington, D.C., looking for an advance on the bonus compensation promised to them years earlier. After camping throughout Washington for two months, the veterans were dirven out by force. Under the command of General Douglas MacArthur and his officers Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton, they drove the veterans from Washington and burned their camps and the...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 275 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Though most people associate D-Day with the massive invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, few are aware that 'D-Day' is actually military code for any amphibious operation. Take a look at dozens of the more than one hundred D-Days waged in the Pacific. The ultimate guide to the epic campaign orchestrated by American forces in the Pacific, this two volume set includes seven documentary features.
9) Emperor
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1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Immediately after Emperor Hirohito's World War II surrender, General MacArthur suddenly finds himself the de facto ruler of a foreign nation. He challenges his expert on Japanese culture, General Fellers to provide evidence in ten short days to decide if the Japanese Emperor, worshipped as a god by his people but accused of war crimes, should be punished or saved, as the fate of a nation waits.
After World War II, Brigadier General Bonner Fellers...
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635 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated with elegant neoclassical buildings, spacious parks, and home to thousands of U.S. servicemen and business executives who enjoyed the relaxed pace of the tropics. The outbreak of the war, however, brought an end to the good life. General Douglas MacArthur, hoping to protect the Pearl of the Orient, declared the Philippine capital an open city and evacuated his forces. The Japanese...
11) War at the end of the world: Douglas MacArthur and the forgotten fight for New Guinea, 1942-1945
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x, 436 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II -- General Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea. One American soldier called it "a green hell on earth." Monsoon-soaked wilderness, debilitating heat, impassable mountains, torrential rivers, and disease-infested swamps -- New Guinea was a battleground far deadlier than the...
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437 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"From master storyteller and historian H.W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter about the possible use of atomic weapons in response to China's...
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xv, 937 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"The Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Gandhi & Churchill goes beyond the mythologies of the World War II general to illuminate his strengths and weaknesses, placing his career against a backdrop of history while discussing how he shaped his character to meet national needs"--NoveList.
A new, definitive life of the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation's great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific...
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