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In this first of three volumes on General George C. Marshall, recounting his career up to his appointment as Chief of Staff of the Army in 1939, the picture of the man is hauntingly incomplete. The shadows are not deep, but they are unexplored. We are informed that those who might have given critical testimony preferred silence. They were not persuaded that truth has its own charity which should not be mocked by the conventions of man.

George C. Marshall: Education of a General, 1880-1939, by Forrest C. Pogue. Viking, $7.50

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In this first of three volumes on General George C. Marshall, recounting his career up to his appointment as Chief of Staff of the Army in 1939, the picture of the man is hauntingly incomplete. The shadows are not deep, but they are unexplored. We are informed that those who might have given critical testimony preferred silence. They were not persuaded that truth has its own charity which should not be mocked by the conventions of man.

George C. Marshall: Education of a General, 1880-1939, by Forrest C. Pogue. Viking, $7.50