Picture George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, George Marshall, and Dwight Eisenhower and you see generals, a secretary of state and defense, and a president. But before they liberated Western Europe and East Asia and led the free world in the Cold War, they were middle-aged men with uncertain futures.
Ben Runkle illuminates the hidden lives of these future commanders between World War I and World War II in Generals in the Making.
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