Clark, General Mark.

From the Danube to the Yalu. With eleven plates in half-tone and a map.

London, George G.Harrap & CO. Ltd., 1954. 21,5 cm x 14 cm. 356 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only slightly foxed.

Mark Wayne Clark (May 1, 1896 – April 17, 1984) was a senior officer of the United States Army who saw service during World War I and World War II and the Korean War. He was the youngest lieutenant general (three-star general) in the United States Army during World War II.

During the Korean War, he took over as commander of the United Nations Command on May 12, 1952, succeeding General Matthew Ridgway.
From 1954 until 1965, after retiring from the Army, General Clark served as president of The Citadel, the military college located in Charleston, South Carolina.
From 1954 to 1955 Clark was head of the so-called “Clark Task Force” to study and make recommendations on all intelligence activities of the Federal government. The task force had been created 1953 by the second Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, a.k.a. the Hoover Commission because it was chaired by Herbert Hoover.
Members of the Clark Task Force were Adm. Richard L. Conolly, USN (Ret), a former Deputy Chief of Naval Operations; Ernest F. Hollings, the speaker pro tempore of South Carolina’s House of Representatives; California businessman Henry Kearns; Edward V. Rickenbacker, World War I flying ace and president of Eastern Air Lines;and Donald S. Russell, a former Assistant Secretary of State. The staff director was Maj. Gen. James G. Christiansen, USA (Ret). The task force first met early November 1954 and in May 1955 submitted one Top Secret report for the President, and another unclassified for the Hoover Commission and Congress. The Clark task force coined the term Intelligence Community to describe “…the machinery for accomplishing our intelligence objectives.”
Clark wrote two memoirs: Calculated Risk (1950) and From the Danube to the Yalu (1954).
In 1962 Clark was elected an honorary member of the South Carolina Society of the Cincinnati in recognition of his outstanding service to his country. (Wikipedia).

• Keywords: History · Korean War
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 71028AB

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