Corncob Caesar
Murray Sayle, 6 February 1997
Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life of Douglas MacArthur
by Geoffrey Perret.
Deutsch, 663 pp., £20, October 1996,9780233990026 Show More
by Geoffrey Perret.
Deutsch, 663 pp., £20, October 1996,
“... most modern soldier of our time. The trap into which he fell is still set. This new biography by Geoffrey Perret, an Anglo-American soldier-turned-historian, is not the last word; but it is a big improvement on its forerunners, and Perret has dug up important new material. MacArthur was born in a dusty US Army post at ... ”