The
Fighting Pattons
by Brian M. Sobel
Paperback - 416 pages (July 11, 2000)
Dell Pub Co; ISBN: 0440235723
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General
Patton: A Soldier's Life
by Stanley P. Hirshson
Hardcover: 826 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.89 x
9.56 x 6.55
HarperCollins; ISBN: 0060009829; (August 6, 2002)
General
Patton's Principles : For Life and Leadership
by Porter B. Williamson
Paperback (June 1988)
Management & Systems Consultants; ISBN: 0918356067
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Patton
: A Genius for War
by Carlo D'Este
Book Description
Patton: A Genius for War is a full-fledged portrait of an extraordinary
American that reveals the complex and contradictory personality that lay
behind the swashbuckling and brash facade. According to Publishers Weekly,
the result is "a major biography of a major American military figure."
Fifty years after his death, General George C. Patton Jr. remains one
of the most colorful, charismatic, misunderstood and controversial figures
ever to set foot on the battlefields of World War II. And the image of
the man has been not a little influenced by the 1970 film Patton, starring
George C. Scott, in which he is portrayed as a swashbuckling, brash, profane,
impetuous general who wore ivory-handled pistols into battle and slapped
two hospitalized soldiers in Sicily.
It is one of the achievements of this riveting biography that it reveals
the complex and contradictory personality that lay behind the facade. With
full access to Patton's private and public papers, and the cooperation
of the general's family, Carlo D'Este shows us not only the extrovert Patton
of public perception, but also the intensely private Patton -- the devoted
student of history, the poet, the humble man very unsure of his own abilities
-- who could burst into tears, be charming or insulting quite unexpectedly,
and the Patton who trained himself for greatness with a determination matched
by no other general in the twentieth century. D'Este describes Patton's
patrician background with its strong military heritage in the Civil War
on the Confederate side; his struggle to overcome dyslexia to get through
West Point; his lifelong doubts about his own courage that forced him to
take reckless chances; and the enduring and sometimes troubled marriage
to his childhood sweetheart, Beatrice Ayer, daughter of a wealthy Boston
family, who proved to be a tower of strength and devotion to a soldier
husband who was miserable in peacetime.
This book also covers Patton's military career from his dramatic role
in the 1916 campaign against Pancho Villa in northern Mexico to his service
in France in World War I, where he organized and led the first U.S. tank
corps at Saint-Mihiel and in the Meuse-Argonne offensive (where he was
seriously wounded), to his frequently brilliant and occasionally very controversial
roles during World War II in the fighting in North Africa, Sicily, France
and Germany, where he earned the reputation of being the allied general
the Germans most feared and respected.
Patton: A Genius for War is a full-fledged portrait of an extraordinary
American. The Publisher
Paperback - 1024 pages Reprint edition (October 1996)
Harperperennial Library; ISBN: 0060927623
The
Patton Papers 1940-1945
by Martin Blumenson (Editor), George S. Patton
Paperback (October 1996)
Da Capo Pr; ISBN: 0306807173
Patton
: The Man Behind the Legend 1885-1945
by Martin Blumenson
Paperback Reissue edition (December 1994)
Quill; ISBN: 0688137954
Patton's
One-Minute Messages : Tactical Leadership Skills for Business Management
by Charles M. Province
Paperback - 96 pages (September 1995)
Presidio Pr; ISBN: 0891415467
Patton
on Leadership : Strategic Lessons for Corporate Warfare
by Alan Axelrod
Hardcover - 279 pages (November 1999)
Prentice Hall Press; ISBN: 0735200912
The
Pattons : A Personal History of an American Family
by Robert H. Patton
Paperback - 256 pages (October 1, 1996)
Brasseys Inc; ISBN: 1574881272
War
As I Knew It
George S., Jr. Patton
Paperback / Published 1995
Usually ships promptly
General of the Army
by Ed Cray
A diligently researched, clearly written biography of Marshall.
Listed under US Army
The Patton Mind : The Professional Development of an Extraordinary
Leader
by Roger H. Nye
Paperback - 212 pages (November 1992)
Avery Pub Group; ISBN: 0895294281
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