GEORGE C. MARSHALL: ORDEAL AND HOPE 1939-42 by Forrest C. Pogue. 491 pages. Viking. $8.95.
Modern generals win paper monuments. Roman triumphs and imperial purple are out; the dead great don't even get purple prose. Olive-drab words backed by properly inspected facts do the honors. Today's armies, those huge agglomerations of men and machines required for warfare by great industrial states, still need platoon leaders and even heroes; but above all they need a military bureaucrat, a lord of the files.
George C. Marshall, a five-star general, rates a four-volume biography, and this second volume does much to make clear why the Chief...
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