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General Patton: A Soldier's Life – The Most Balanced Portrait of WWII's Brilliant and Complex Commander - Softcover

Hirshson, Stanley

 
9780060009830: General Patton: A Soldier's Life – The Most Balanced Portrait of WWII's Brilliant and Complex Commander
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0060009837 ISBN 13: 9780060009830
Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

“The most complete biography of [Patton] yet produced.” –Chicago
Tribune

Utilizing untapped archival materials from
the United States and England, Stanley P. Hirshson creates the most balanced
portrait of Patton ever written.

General Patton: A Soldier’s Life reveals
Patton as a complex soldier capable of brilliant military maneuvers but also of
inspiring horrendous acts with fiery speeches. It explains Patton’s belief in a
soldier’s Valhalla, connects the family’s wealth to one of America’s bitterest
labor strikes, and disputes the usual interpretation of Patton’s relief from
command of the Third Army.






While investigating this complex man, Hirshson has
uncovered surprising material about a series of civilian and military massacres
in Sicily, attempts to exploit Patton’s diary after his death, and Patton’s
relations with top Allied generals. In this meticulously documented volume,
Patton comes to life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stanley P. Hirshson was professor of history at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of biographies of Brigham Young, Gen. William T. Sherman, and Gen. George Patton, and died in 2003.

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General George S. Patton Jr, an inspirational leader and outstanding tactician, has intrigued and confounded his biographers. Utilising untapped archival materials in both the USA and UK, government documents, family papers, and oral histories, Hirshson creates the most balanced portrait of Patton ever written. It reveals Patton as a complex soldier capable of brilliant military manoeuvres but also of inspiring his troops with fiery speeches that resulted in horrendous acts, such as the massacres of Italian civilians. It explains Patton′s belief in a soldier′s Valhalla, connects the family′s wealth to one of America′s bitterest labour strikes, and disputes the usual interpretation of Patton′s relief from command of the Third Army. In investigating this complex man, Hirshson has uncovered surprising material about a series of civilian massacres in Sicily, about the two slapping incidents, about attempts to exploit Patton′s diary after his death, and about Patton′s relations with top Allied generals. Patton emerges as a soldier of great imagination and courage, and his military campaigns make for edge-of-the-seat reading. All the drama of Patton′s life comes alive in this meticulously documented volume.

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Verlag
Harper Perennial
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0060009837
ISBN 13 
9780060009830
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
864
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