SWORDS AND PLOWSHARES

Taylor, Maxwell D.

ISBN 10: 0393074609 / ISBN 13: 9780393074604

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1972

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All dust jackets are in Mylar acid-free protectors.Dust jacket condition is not reliable -- pleas inquire if your would like a detailed description of the jacket condition.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 434 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SWORDS AND PLOWSHARES
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393074609
• ISBN 13: 9780393074604
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good+

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Synopsis

General Maxwell D. Taylor was one of the great military heroes of recent American history. During World War II, Taylor fought in Sicily and Italy before parachuting into France as head of the 101st Airborne Division on Dday, 1944. Later he commanded the Division in the Arnhem drop in Holland and in the defense of Basting in the Bulge. After the war, Taylor served as superintendent of West Point, U.S. Commander in Berlin, Commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, and Army Chief of Staff under President Eisenhower. John F. Kennedy named him chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and sent him to Vietnam in 1961; he returned to that country as Ambassador in 1965, and served as a key advisor to President Johnson until 1969. In Swords and Plowshares, Taylor tells the firsthand story of a life of action, courage, strategy, and dedication. Offering candid and controversial views of such central figures as Dwight Eisenhower, John Dulles, the Kennedyâ s, and General Westmoreland, Taylor contrasts their varying views of the role of air power in modern warfare, and presents his own approach to the problems of winning wars and making peace. These memoirs ably illustrate why General Maxwell Taylor deserves to rank among Marshall, Eisenhower, MacArthur, and Patton as one of the great American military geniuses of our time.