While researching an article on Gen. George S. Patton, Kevin M.
Hymel made an astonishing discovery. Browsing the Library of
Congress's Patton index, he found lists of photo albums. Opening
one, he found photos Patton himself took during World War II, a
gold mine of historical photographs of which even Blumenson,
Patton's official biographer, was unaware.Patton photographed
everything that interested him and produced tableaux of the
battlefields of North Africa, Sicily, and continental Europe. For
Patton, history was everything, and his Leica camera-standard issue
for reporters and historians in the U.S. Army-ensured he could
provide historians an accurate depiction of events, free from
interpretation. His photographs depict the victorious face of war,
with GIs on the move, military bridges under construction, and
tanks slicing through the countryside. They show defeat as
well-smashed German tanks, prisoners of war, and bodies strewn
across the landscape. Moreover, they provide a record of where
Patton fought, showcasing historic sights and the different terrain
from North Africa to Europe. Now, for the first time, many of
Patton's personal photographs are presented in one book for the
reader to observe history as Patton saw it. Hymel provides
background information and captions for the photographs and
occasionally uses Patton's own words to describe the sights. Patton
claimed his hobby once saved his life. Stopping to take a
photograph in Italy, he witnessed a salvo of German shells
exploding on the roadway up ahead, where he likely would have been
had he not stopped. With "Patton's Photographs," readers can now
view that life during the war through the eye of one of America's
greatest commanders.
General
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