George C. Marshall, a World War II leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, was born on this day in history, Dec. 31, 1880, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. George Catlett Marshall was best known for his ...
George C. Marshall (1880-1959), arguably the greatest soldier America has produced, was an enigmatic figure throughout his life. Famously tight-lipped, the general-statesman repressed all personal ...
Military heroes acquire cultural resonance by being larger than life. They upset empires and found republics, as did George Washington. After vanquishing their foes, they become presidents, as did ...
George T. Marshall wasn’t a household name in Rhode Island, but he should have been. One of the state’s defining threads is surely the arts, and George spent his career weaving film into that fabric.
In 1938, during one of his first meetings with President Franklin Roosevelt, Gen. George Marshall listened to plans to counter Hitler’s military build-up by amassing an air force of 10,000 planes ...
Romney said of Marshall that he "helped to vanquish fascism and then planned Europe's rescue from despair. His commitment to peace was born of his direct knowledge of the awful costs and consequences ...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has decreed that news outlets are to sign a pledge not to “obtain or use any unauthorized material” or they will lose their press credentials.
The China Mission: George Marshall’s Unfinished War, 1945-1947. By Daniel Kurtz-Phelan.W.W. Norton & Company; 496 pages; $28.95. GEORGE MARSHALL’S name is immortal, for ever attached to the visionary ...
George Marshall didn’t feel like a visionary at the time. His was an idea born of frustration, and he had no idea where it would lead him. We create change not by telling people what to do, but by ...