Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman by D. M. Giangreco, Alonzo L. Hamby (Foreword by)

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As commander-in-chief, President Harry S. Truman authorized dropping The Bomb. Despite making what is arguably the most momentous decision in the history of the world, critics have dismissed the “the Kansas City haberdasher” as having no significant military credentials, discounting his service in World War I as a field artillery battery commander in combat. Yet nothing could be farther from the truth, as The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman makes clear.

Author D. M. Giangreco’s biography of Truman adds a whole new dimension to the already fascinating character of the thirty-third president of the United States. Giangreco shows how, as a commander in combat, Truman was already making the hard decisions that he knew to be right, regardless of personal consequences. He describes how Truman saved a neighboring infantry regiment from a surprise German attack, only to be rebuked by his regimental commander. Truman would have been court-martialed, which certainly would have derailed any future career in politics had it not been for General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing’s words of approval for the result.

The Soldier from Independence supplies a heretofore missing—and critical—chapter in the story of one of the nation’s most important presidents.

Foreword by Alonzo L. Hamby, author of Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman

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