Forrest Pogue (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Forrest Carlisle Pogue Jr. (1912-1996). Forrest C. Pogue was an official United States Army historian during World War II, and attained the rank of Master Sergeant. He may well have been one of the best-educated sergeants in the U.S. Army in World War II. He was a proponent of oral history techniques, and collected many oral histories from the war under the direction of chief Army historian S. L. A. Marshall.Forrest Pogue was for many years the Executive Director of the George C. Marshall Foundation as well as Director of the Marshall Library located on the campus of Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Virginia. Pogue's wife Christine (Brown) Pogue was the artist who painted the portrait of General George Marshall that hangs in the entry of the Marshall Library. citation needed]For many years, he was considered one of the six great historians of the world.