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Patton and His Pistols - The Favorite Side Arms of General George S. Patton, Jr. (Paperback)
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Patton and His Pistols - The Favorite Side Arms of General George S. Patton, Jr. (Paperback)
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Loot Price R315
Discovery Miles 3 150
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Intrigued by hints of "the bigger man" behind the war personality
of Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., the Curator of History of the West
Point Museum and a former "Army wife" studied and compared
innumerable legends and stories about him. The resulting profile is
the unvarnished Patton, as the public saw him and as his friends
and soldiers knew him. Based solidly on contemporary sources, many
of them never before tapped by historians, Patton's exploited in
Mexico, in France in 1918, and during World War II, are strung
together by kernels of truth often more startling than the fiction
which has surrounded them. One of America's most famous and
controversial generals is depicted through his attitude toward his
famous hand guns and uniforms, and the manner in which he reacted
to war and to peace. Four pistols are featured in the book, because
four pistols were featured in his ife. Sixteen pages of pertinent
illustrations, many published for the first time...including the
only known photograph of Patton carrying two
General
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