"Manchester's biography of General MacArthur was good."
I'll have to check that one out. I read Michael Schaller's MacArthur bio recently and it was informative but not fair to MacArthur, IMO. Is Manchester pro-MacArthur?
I don't remember Manchester being unfair. In fact when I was done I had a great respect for the old general.
BTW, if we had listened to him when the communists first drove Chiang-Kai-Sheck(SP?) from mainland China we probably wouldn't have the Red Chinese to deal with today. Or for that matter if we had listened to him during Korea there'd probably be one democratic Korea on the peninsula today.
The same goes for Patton in regards to the Soviet Union.