About this title: In December 1950 General Matthew B. Ridgway replaced General Walton Walker as commander of the Eighth Army, and in April 1951 he succeeded Douglas MacArthur as supreme commander of the United Nations forces in Korea and supreme commander of the United States Far East Command. In this spirited book, General Ridgway describes how he took a ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company
Date Published: 1967
Description: GOOD. HB NO DJ. CLEAN AND SOLID. SLIGHTLY WARPED FRONT BOARD. DUSTY BOARDS. NORMAL READING WEAR. Items may or may not have the same cover art as displayed for this item on this site. If you need a specific cover please inquire first. Vinyl is visually graded according to Goldmine. Because of our volume we just don't have time to play test every album, however we would gladly play test any album and it's often a great idea to ask us to do that to avoid disappointment. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Co. Inc.,, Garden City, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1967
Description: Fair in Fair jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover edges and corners are worn. Front hinge is broken. Binding is tight. 291pp. Reading copy. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780306802676ISBN:0306802678
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 362 p. Contains: Illustrations. Da Capo Paperback. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, New York
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good/No Jacket. Cover is lightly rubbed with light bumping at spine ends and corner tips. Black cloth binding, 291pp., frontis. Maps and illustrations. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very Good/Very Good Minus. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good-. First Edition. hb--spine ends bumped--291p. --maps on endpapers--light shelfwear on dj--a handsome copy. read more
Description: Good. 1967 Doubleday Press Stated First Edition Hardcover. Some wear/small tears to Dust Jacket, small spots/tanning due to age. Ships fast! ! ! read more
Edition: First EDITION
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY & CO., NEW YORK
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. HISTORY. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 291 PAGES. PHOTO SECTIONS. BLACK CLOTH BOARDS. MAPPED END PAPERS. FRONT END PAPER HAS BEEN REMOVED. THIS IS AN EX-LIBRARY COPY, ONLY MARKS ARE PENCIL WRITING ON COPYRIGHT PAGE AND DISCARD STAMP ON FALSE TITLE PAGE. BOOK IS CLEAN, BRIGHT AND SECURE. read more
Edition: Reprint of the 1967 Doubleday Edition
Binding: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press, New York
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780306802676ISBN:0306802678
Description: Very Good Plus. Currently in print for $16.50. NO marks or underlining. This title is IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE. Some fading on back wrapper-otherwise as described. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Great Commanders. Collector's Reprints, Pennington, NJ
Date Published: 1998
Description: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 291p. index. frontis, map. Great Commanders series. Bio. slip laid in. Blue, gold decor cloth. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Great Commanders, Princeton NJ
Date Published: 1998
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. Very good condition, no dustjacket as issued. Full blue cloth hardcovers with stamped gold ink titles and decorations. Covers have light wear only, a few light spots. Interior in fine condition: crisp, clean, and tight. Yellow ribbon bookmark.; 8vo 8"-9" tall. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Great Commanders, Princeton NJ
Date Published: 1998
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. Very good condition, no dustjacket as issued. Full blue cloth hardcovers with stamped gold ink titles and decorations. Covers have light wear only, light discoloration marks on front cover. Interior in fine condition: crisp, clean, and tight. Yellow ribbon bookmark.; 8vo 8"-9" tall. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY
Date Published: 1967
Description: Black & White Photos & Illus. G/G. Sm 4to., 291 pp., DJ rubbed, yellowing, frayed, hinges discoloring. How We Met the Challenge / How All-Out Asian War was Averted / Why MacArthur was Dismissed / Why Today's War Objectives Must Be Limited. read more
"This book gives you a broad picture of what the US did in Korea due to American politics. I think the biggest limitation of this book is that it fails to consider a lot of the context in which the war was occurring. I kept on getting frustrated because I wanted to know more about what was going on with the South Korean people, how they reacted to the war, and how the US collaborated with them. I also wish that Ridgway spent more time considering what was going on politically in both the north and south of Korea, China, and the USSR, particularly in the events leading up to the war. It was a good thing Ben read this book to me so he could answer a lot of my questions.
You can skip the last two chapters; they just reiterate his ideas about how the nature of war has changed since WWII."
"Matthew Ridgway was one of our nation's best commanders ever, right up there with Washington, Grant, and Pershing in terms of his impact on the major conflict of his time and his selfless service to our country, and a rival of Patton, Lee, and Sherman when it came to personal example in the field. Without his personal effort and example in 1951, in my opinion, we would think of Korea in the same way that we think of Viet Nam now (and the way we will likely end up thinking about Iraq once this is over). In fact, if not for Ridgway, Truman might have ended up with a historical reputation like LBJ's and Bush II's (who will NOT be vindicated by history in the long run, in my opinion - 'nuff said on that for now). Plus, without Ridgway's adamant stand against intervention in the 50's while serving as Army Chief of Staff, we might have ended up in Viet Nam ten years earlier. Admittedly, Eisenhower and his cabinet were a lot more likely to listen to his Joint Chiefs than Bush II, Cheney, and Rumsfeld were in 2002-3. Still, the example set by Ridgway at that time should be the model for the general serving as the Chairman of the JCS and the Army Chief (although I give Gen Shinseki some credit for at least trying to let the Congress and the country know what a realistic troop figure should have been in order to properly provide security once we had invaded).
Anyway....Ridgway is the major 20th century American historical figure most deserving of a real scholarly biography like James's The Years of MacArthur, Pogue's series on Marshall, or the fine works on Eisenhower by Ambrose and others. Yet until our military and political historians get off their collective ass and make the effort to do the right research, this book and Ridgway's Soldier are all we have to work with.
This is an OK book, but we know we're only getting one side of a huge story that has many varied and credible perspectives.
All of our current generals, especially the ones in charge in Iraq and who are directly responsible for advising the national command authority, would do well to learn from the example set by Matthew B. Ridgway."
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