Mark Clark

He stands with the other celebrated Americans who led the Allied victory in Europe—Eisen- hower, Bradley, Patton. But never before has there been a full-length treatment of General Mark Wayne Clark. It is a surprising oversight, for Clark was important. He was also as fascinat- ing as any of the others, full of striking contra- dictions. Was he, for example, a heroic com- mander or—as many claimed—a glory hound who rigged his campaigns for maximum public- ity and was responsible for deadly fiascos in Italy? Now Martin Blumenson, eminent historian and author of the monumental work The Patton…