Major General Orlando Ward: Life of a Leader

Orlando Ward received his first assignment out of West Point in 1914 as a lieutenant in command of U.S. Cavalry troops patrolling the Mexican border. During an illustrious forty-year career he pursued Pancho Villa, led American combat troops in two World Wars, and commanded occupation forces in an uneasy peace on the Korean Peninsula. Gugeler's insights reveal General Ward both as a major American military figure and a man anchored by an unshakeable core of moral strength. Through eyewitness accounts, diary entries and family history, Gugeler tells the story of a man ruled by an unerring sense of duty--to his loved ones, his men and his country.