Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
William ManchesterHe [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.
William ManchesterThe colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.
William ManchesterMen do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
William ManchesterOne strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or two. There was so much death around that life seemed almost indecent. Some men's uniforms were soaked with gobs of blood. The ground was sodden with it. I killed, too.
William Manchester