Scraped and raw as a freshly plowed field, Charley Patton’s voice decries his harsh life amid the plantation system of the Reconstruction-era South. Patton rises defiantly from scratched 78 rpm ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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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