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In this episode I\'m looking at Douglas MacArthur with Walter Borneman.

MacArthur is one of those personalities that war throws up which I find hard to pin down. They have a big personalities and seemingly a huge confidence within themselves that overrides everything else (another two examples for me would be Monty and Patton).

The media generated about them at the time seems to put them on a pedestal,\\xa0its hard to see through that hype to figure out how good they actually were.

Since I started the podcast MacArthur was in my top ten of topics to cover, so I was thrilled to see a new book on him\\xa0\\u201cMacArthur at War: WWII in the Pacific\\u201d by Walter Borneman. I highly recommend you give it a read, its a balance look which at times has you disbelieving\\xa0he was allowed to\\xa0continue in command, at other times you see his ability shine through. He undoubtedly was a very complex man.\\xa0