Author: David McCormack

Following a career as a certified social worker David McCormack graduated from Salford University as a mature student with a first class honours degree in Contemporary Military and International History. Since April 2012, Mr. McCormack has worked as a military historian and battlefield guide with UK-based Leger Battlefield Tours.

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General Douglas MacArthur: A Man of the People?

David McCormack gives a short history of General Douglas MacArthur’s administration of Japan and his six decades on the throne as a ‘man of the people’.

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