Emphasis Preaching Journal

General George C. Marshall, U.S. Army Chief of Staff during World War II, was perhaps the most important military officer of that era, as he organized and directed the overall strategy for victory in Europe and Japan. From 1948 to 1952, he was the author of the Marshall Plan which helped European countries rebuild and in the process removed the threat of another war in Europe. But, in spite of seven-figure advances offered by publishers, he never wrote his memoirs. To do so, he suggested, would require him to tell the full story, and such truth-telling would sometimes wound old colleagues.