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Patton (Hardcover)
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Patton (Hardcover)
Series: Great Commanders S.
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General George Smith Patton came to the fore in the fighting in
North Africa and Sicily in 1942 and 1943 as a tough and
inspirational field commander who drove his army as relentlessly as
he did himself. Arrogant, vainglorious and unpopular with his
fellow Allied generals, he was nevertheless one of the great land
force commanders of the Second World War. Patton inspired an
unswerving loyalty in his men, perhaps difficult to understand in
the light of his treatment of them, which was often bullying and
sometimes cruel. However, when the raw and untested US soldiers
came to face the much-feared German panzer divisions in North
Africa, he gave his men the self-belief to take them on. He refused
to allow his army to think that they were second best. Trevor Royle
portrays the real Patton, a man who behind the bluster was
thoughtful and deeply religious with wide interests in literature
and military history. Patton's fatal car crash in post-war Germany
in 1945 meant that Old Blood and Guts never faced the 'horrors of
peace' he so feared.
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