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A veteran of both world wars and the Korean War, Gen. Gerald C. Thomas helped change the Marine Corps in the twentieth century. Though not as well-known as John Lejeune, Chesty Puller, and A. A. Vandegrift, he was, as this book clearly demonstrates, responsible for the transformation of the Marines into a highly effective amphibious assault force and Cold War ...

With this war and its sequelae the US moved onto center stage among the major powers. Such a pivotal event has received much less attention than one would expect. Bradford, along with D.F. Trask, G.A. Cosmas, H.D. Langley, J. Shulison and others, begin to redress this neglect with their exploration of the US naval, military, and diplomatic conduct that led ...