MacArthur 1941-1951.

WILLOUGHBY, Maj. Gen. Charles A. and John Chamberlain (Douglas A. MacArthur).

Item Number: 77012

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1954.

First edition of this work by MacArthur’s Chief of Intelligence Charles A. Willoughby. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Signed on the half-title page, “Best wishes. Douglas MacArthur.” Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by George Thompson. This is the first example we have seen signed by General MacArthur.

Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur, Jr., the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five men ever to rise to the rank of General of the Army in the US Army, and the only man ever to become a field marshal in the Philippine Army.