03640cam a2200529 a 4500 ocn213408500 OCoLC 20241203094225.0 080305s2008 dcuaf b 001 0beng 2008009336 GBA8A5902 bnb 014708568 Uk 9781574887624 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 1574887629 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 9781574887631 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 1574887637 (pbk. ; alk. paper) AU@ 000042857641 GEBAY 10899850 NLGGC 319259242 NZ1 13249662 UKMGB 014708568 (OCoLC)213408500 (OCoLC)149469169 (OCoLC)149469180 (OCoLC)245564649 eng GAFCSC LIBRARY n-us--- E745.P3 B56 Blumenson, Martin. Patton : legendary commander / Martin Blumenson and Kevin Hymel. 1st ed. Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, �2008. xiii, 117 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. Potomac's military profiles Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-108) and index. Family and boyhood -- Virginia Military Institute and West Point -- Mexico and World War I -- The long wait -- North Africa and Sicily -- Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge -- The end of the war and occupation -- His meaning and legacy. "Shortly after World War II, when the Allies interrogated Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, the senior commander who opposed the Allied invasion of France, they asked him to rate the skills of his opponents. He is reputed to have said, "Patton, he was your best."" "Praise for his performance was precisely what George Smith Patton, Jr., had sought all his life. As a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute and West Point, he was already searching for what he called "the undefinable difference" that distinguished a great general from the good ones. He led a mechanized attack in Mexico and a tank battalion during World War I. In World War II he turned American fortunes around in North Africa, chased the Germans out of Sicily, and sparked the breakout and liberation of France. When the Germans attacked the American First Army in the Battle of the Bulge, Patton turned his army north and smashed the German salient. He then drove into the heart of Germany and reached Czechoslovakia by war's end." "Brilliant yet flawed, Patton's leadership style drove himself and his men to acts of bravery and victory. Half uncouth, provincial cowboy and half cultured sophisticate, the man behind the warrior mask was a complex and paradoxical person. He became an icon of the American military leader and the uncompromising individual."--Jacket. Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945. United States. Army Biography. 1900-1999 fast Generals United States Biography. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns. Hymel, Kevin M., 1966- has work: Patton (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGH6jrKMtqDbcXV9xBwxQq https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Online version: Blumenson, Martin. Patton. 1st ed. Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, �2008 (OCoLC)777519652 Military profiles. Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0813/2008009336.html lcc BK E745.P3 B56 0 NO HOLDINGS IN GHUCC - 141 OTHER HOLDINGS 2715 2715 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-12-03 0 E745.P3 B56 2024-4204 2024-12-03 09:42:42 C.1 2024-12-03 BK