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MacArthur: 1941-1951, by Charles A. Willoughby and John Chamberlain

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General Charles Willoughby, well known to the public as General MacArthur’s controversial former intelligence chief, has, with the assistance of John Chamberlain, brought out what is probably the closest thing to an official biography of Douglas MacArthur we shall get. His book reflects the advantages of his intimacy with his subject, both as friend and soldier, and his freedom of access to the General’s private records—advantages that official Army historians, consistently kept at a distance from much of the material in General MacArthur’s possession, may well envy.



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