They try to get behind the monument in George Marshall: A Biography. Still, they have a hard time interpreting this elusive man.

OPINION: GEORGE MARSHALL: A BIOGRAPHY By Debi and Irwin Unger with Stanley Hirshson HarperCollins, $35, 552 pages, illustrated A biography of Gen. George Marshall is not to be undertaken lightly.

Marshall remains an unknown and this biography will make the reader regret the passing of a nation that could produce such men as Marshall, Eisenhower, MacArthur, George Patton, Omar Bradley and ...

Marshall followed in his brother’s footsteps by going to VMI, a respected educational institution but not the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

As a young U.S. Army infantry officer in the Philippines in 1902, George Marshall was leading his soldiers single file across a stream when one of them spotted a crocodile.

Josiah Bunting has done a fine job of supplementing and enriching that mammoth work. Learn more: Josiah Bunting III, “The Making of a Leader – The Formative Years of George C. Marshall,” Knopf.

Debi and Irwin Unger, with Stanley Hirshson. Harper, $35 (560p) ISBN 978-0-06-057719-3 ...

All of General George C. Marshall’s efforts are recalled in Debi and Irwin Unger’s new biography. But the magnitude of his achievements goes almost unnoticed. It’s as if Marshall still needs ...

Gen. George C. Marshall was a dedicated public servant. As chief of staff of the U.S. Army, he did essential work to get a dangerously unprepared America at least partially ready for World War II ...

Marshall was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, where, as the authors quote him on Page 13: “What I learned most at the VMI was self-control, discipline, so it was ground in.” ...