Robert Payne

Marshall Story (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1951, this is the story of the life and mind of George C. Marshall, soldier and statesman, as told by a distinguished writer whose own background makes him particularly qualified to discuss some of the more controversial aspects of General Marshall's work since World War II.Robert Payne carefully places George Marshall against the Virginia background from which he came and takes him from there through his education at V.M.I., his experiences as a young officer, the first indications of his genius in World War I, his work between the wars, his colossal achievement as one of the architects of victory in World War II, his ill-fated mission in China, his contribution to the Marshall Plan and his present work in the military effort.Showing in quite an extraordinary way how Marshall represents the strengths and weaknesses of the American tradition, this book's study of the life of a great contemporary American illuminates the American scene with an insight rarely equalled in a biographical work.This book will shatter some illusions about George C. Marshall, but it will also place him in the perspective of his time and demonstrate that he may be even greater than many of us have thought him to be.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lucknow Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787203990
• Artikelnr.: 47698328

Autorenporträt

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (4 December 1911 - 18 February 1983) was an English-born author, known principally for biographies of prominent historical figures, such as Hitler, Stalin, Marx, Lenin, Mao Zedong and Gandhi, several of which were selected for Book of the Month Club. A prolific author, he also wrote numerous novels, poetry, magazine articles, and many other works. Born at Saltash, Cornwall, he was the son of Stephen Payne, an English naval architect, and Mireille Louise Antonia (Dorey) Payne, originally from France. He was educated at St. Paul's School in London, the Diocesan College at Rondebosch and the University of Capetown in South Africa, the universities of Liverpool and Munich, and the Sorbonne. As a young man Payne worked as a shipwright, in England and then at the Singapore Naval Base, where he transferred to Army Intelligence. He worked in China between 1941-1946, as cultural attaché to the British Embassy and as a teacher at Fuhtan University at Chungking and at Lianda University, Kunming. In 1946, Payne met and interviewed Mao Zedong in Yenan, providing background for his 1950 best-selling work Mao Tse-tung: Ruler of Red China. Payne moved to the United States in 1946 and from 1949-1954 was Professor of English and author in residence at Alabama College, Montevallo. He became a U.S. citizen in 1953 and settled in New York in 1954, devoting himself to writing and shifting his focus in part from novels and poetry to biography. He was chairman of the Translation Committee of PEN International, and in 1976 co-founded the Translation Center at Columbia University. He edited The Russian Library series for Washington Square Press. He died in Bermuda in 1983 at the age of 71.