Biography at its very best. Literate and meaty, incisive and balanced, detailed without being pedantic. Mr. D'Este's Patton takes its rightful place as the definitive biography of this American warrior. --Dallas Morning News A comprehensive biography of General George Patton draws on hitherto unavailable letters, diaries, and memoirs, uncovering many new facts to create an insightful and definitive portrait of an American military hero. Fifty years after his death, General George S. Patton Jr. remains one of the most colorful, charismatic, misunderstood, and controversial figures ever to set foot on the battlefields of World War II. And the image of the man has been not a little influenced by the 1970 film Patton, starring George C. Scott, in which he is portrayed as a swashbuckling, brash, profane, impetuous general who wore ivory-handled pistols into battle and slapped two hospitalized soldiers in Sicily. It is one of the achievements of this riveting biography that it reveals the complex and contradictory personality that lay behind the facade. With full access to Patton's private and public papers, and the cooperation of the general's family, D'Este shows us not only the extrovert Patton of public perception but also the intensely private Patton - the devoted student of history, the poet, the humble man very unsure of his own abilities - who could burst into tears, be charming or insulting quite unexpectedly, and the Patton who trained himself for greatness with a determination matched by no other general in the twentieth century.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins INC International Concepts
ISBN-13
9780060927622
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91964523
Product Key Features
Author
Carlo D'este
Publication Name
Patton: a Genius for War
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government, History
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
992 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
204mm
Item Width
135mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Carlo D'este
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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