General Patton: A Soldier's Life
出版時間:2003-08
頁數(shù):864
虛構(gòu):非虛構(gòu)
ISBN:9780060009830
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General George S. Patton Jr an inspirational leader and outstanding tactician has intrigued and confounded his biographers. Utilising untapped archival materials in both the USA and UK government documents family papers and oral histories Hirshson creates the most balanced portrait of Patton ever written. It reveals Patton as a complex soldier capable of brilliant military manoeuvres but also of inspiring his troops with fiery speeches that resulted in horrendous acts such as the massacres of Italian civilians. It explains Pattons belief in a soldiers Valhalla connects the familys wealth to one of Americas bitterest labour strikes and disputes the usual interpretation of Pattons relief from command of the Third Army. In investigating this complex man Hirshson has uncovered surprising material about a series of civilian massacres in Sicily about the two slapping incidents about attempts to exploit Pattons diary after his death and about Pattons relations with top Allied generals. Patton emerges as a soldier of great imagination and courage and his military campaigns make for edgeoftheseat reading. All the drama of Pattons life comes alive in this meticulously documented volume.
General George S. Patton Jr an inspirational leader and outstanding tactician has intrigued and confounded his biographers. Utilising untapped archival materials in both the USA and UK government documents family papers and oral histories Hirshson creates the most balanced portrait of Patton ever written. It reveals Patton as a complex soldier capable of brilliant military manoeuvres but also of inspiring his troops with fiery speeches that resulted in horrendous acts such as the massacres of Italian civilians. It explains Pattons belief in a soldiers Valhalla connects the familys wealth to one of Americas bitterest labour strikes and disputes the usual interpretation of Pattons relief from command of the Third Army. In investigating this complex man Hirshson has uncovered surprising material about a series of civilian massacres in Sicily about the two slapping incidents about attempts to exploit Pattons diary after his death and about Pattons relations with top Allied generals. Patton emerges as a soldier of great imagination and courage and his military campaigns make for edgeoftheseat reading. All the drama of Pattons life comes alive in this meticulously documented volume.
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