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100 1 _aBlumenson, Martin.
245 1 0 _aPatton :
_blegendary commander /
_cMartin Blumenson and Kevin Hymel.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aWashington, D.C. :
_bPotomac Books,
_c2009.
300 _axiii, 117 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c21 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
490 1 _aPotomac's military profiles
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 97-108) and index.
505 0 _aFamily 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.
520 1 _a"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.
600 1 0 _aPatton, George S.
_q(George Smith),
_d1885-1945.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy
_vBiography.
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650 0 _aGenerals
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xCampaigns.
651 7 _aUnited States.
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655 7 _acollective biographies.
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655 7 _aBiographies.
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655 7 _aMilitary history.
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655 7 _aBiographies.
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700 1 _aHymel, Kevin M.,
_d1966-
758 _ihas work:
_aPatton (Text)
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776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aBlumenson, Martin.
_tPatton.
_b1st ed.
_dWashington, D.C. : Potomac Books, �2008
_w(OCoLC)777519652
830 0 _aMilitary profiles.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
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