Prior to World War II, Dwight Eisenhower had resigned himself to finishing out a distinguished but unremarkable military career. By 1943, however, he found himself serving as Supreme Commander, Allied ...
General George Patton was the most feared American commander for the German generals on the Western Front. The Wehrmacht’s officers described Patton as America’s Rommel. The volume under review is the ...
Introduction: Command and controversy -- To the Army born -- Cadet, soldier, athlete, swordsman -- In pursuit of Pancho Villa -- The Great War and the new weapon -- At war with peace -- Restless ...
THE sun rose slowly, as though rising from a furnace, and then quickly spread its heat across the Sicilian countryside. It was the morning of July 13, 1943, and I was en route by jeep to Gela. As I ...
Gen. George S. Patton may have been one of the most controversial generals ever to command an American army, but the results speak for themselves. He turned a struggling group of green GIs who lost ...
War As I Knew It, by George S. Patton, Jr., is the first personal narrative of an Army Commander in the late war the most picturesque and probably the most brilliant of them all. And for good measure, ...
MANNHEIM, Germany – Eighty years after his death, the legacy of Gen. George S. Patton Jr. endures, yet his life was cut short not by a final, glorious battle, but by a mundane traffic accident on a ...
Most Americans recall no more than three World War II generals: Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, and the best-remembered ultimate warrior: General George S. Patton. Memory is legacy; memory is ...
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