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The Last Cavalryman - The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr. (Hardcover)
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The Last Cavalryman - The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr. (Hardcover)
Series: Campaigns and Commanders Series
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Truscott was one of the really tough generals,"" soldier-cartoonist
Bill Mauldin of the 45th Infantry Division once wrote. ""He could
have eaten a ham like Patton for breakfast any morning and picked
his teeth with the man's pearl-handled pistols."" Not one merely to
act the part of commander, Mauldin remembered, ""Truscott spent
half his time at the front - the real front - with nobody in
attendance but a nervous Jeep driver and a worried aide."" In this
biography of Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., author Harvey Ferguson tells
the story of how Truscott - despite his hardscrabble beginnings,
patchy education, and questionable luck - not only made the rank of
army lieutenant general, earning a reputation as one of World War
II's most effective officers along the way, but was also given an
honorary promotion to four-star general seven years after his
retirement. For all his accomplishments and celebrated heroic
action, Truscott was not one for self-aggrandizement, which may
explain in part why historians have neglected him until now. The
Last Cavalryman, drawing on personal papers only recently made
available, gives the first full picture of this singular man's
extraordinary life and career. Ferguson describes Truscott's
near-accidental entry into the U.S. Cavalry (propelled by Pancho
Villa's 1916 raids) and his somewhat halting rise through the ranks
- aided by fellow cavalryman George S. Patton, Jr., who steered him
into the nascent armored force at the right time. The author takes
us through Truscott's service in the Second World War, from
creating the U.S. Army Rangers to engineering the breakout from
Anzio and leading the ""masterpiece"" invasion of southern France.
Ferguson finishes his narrative by detailing the general's postwar
work with the CIA, where he acted as President Dwight Eisenhower's
eyes and ears within the agency. A compelling story in itself, this
biography of Lucian K. Truscott, Jr. - a cavalryman to the last -
fills out an important chapter in American military history.
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