Patton: Genius for War, AHarper Collins, 27 thg 9, 1996 - 1024 trang Patton: A Genius for War is a full-fledged portrait of an extraordinary American that reveals the complex and contradictory personality that lay behind the swashbuckling and brash facade. According to Publishers Weekly, the result is "a major biography of a major American military figure." "This massive work is 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." --Calvin L. Christman, Dallas Morning News "D'Este tells this story well, and gives us a new understanding of this great and troubled man."-The Wall Street Journal "An instant classic." --Douglas Brinkley, director, Eisenhower Center |
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A Summons to Battle | 456 |
Allies | 471 |
A Dogs Breakfast | 491 |
Seventh Army Commander | 504 |
The Slapping Incidents | 521 |
Exile | 547 |
England | 565 |
In the DoghouseAgain | 583 |
And Baby Makes Three | 119 |
A Young Man on the Make | 128 |
A Home Where the Buffalo Roam | 143 |
Pershing and the Punitive Expedition | 156 |
The Bandit Killer | 170 |
World War I 19171918 | 184 |
Tank Officer | 199 |
The Interwar Years 19191939 | 283 |
If You Want to Have a Good Time Jine the Cavalry | 313 |
Past and Future Warrior Reincarnate | 320 |
Student Days Boston Baked Beans and Hawaiian Leis | 329 |
The Washington Years 19281934 | 343 |
War Clouds 19351939 | 357 |
Prelude to War 19391942 | 373 |
The 1941 Tennessee Louisiana and Carolina Maneuvers | 392 |
Countdown to War | 408 |
Casablanca to Messina | 429 |
The Speech | 601 |
Normandy to the Rhine 19441945 | 607 |
A Damned Fine War | 626 |
For Gods Sake Give Us Gas | 645 |
A Sea of Mud and Blood | 659 |
PATTON OF COURSE | 674 |
Pissing in the Rhine | 703 |
An Unsoldierly Death 1945 | 731 |
All Good Things Must Come to an End | 760 |
A Helluva Way to Die | 783 |
Epilogue | 805 |
Patton Family Genealogy | 821 |
Notes | 827 |
Sources and Select Bibliography | 935 |
Acknowledgments | 951 |
Index | 957 |
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Trang 402 - THE earth is full of anger, The seas are dark with wrath, The Nations in their harness Go up against our path: Ere yet we loose the legions — Ere yet we draw the blade, Jehovah of the Thunders, Lord God of Battles, aid ! High lust and froward bearing, Proud heart, rebellious brow — Deaf ear and soul uncaring, We seek Thy mercy now!
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Trang 504 - When we land , we will meet German and Italian soldiers whom it is our honor and privilege to attack and destroy. Many of you have in your veins German and Italian blood, but remember that these ancestors of yours so loved freedom that they gave up home and country to cross the ocean in search of liberty. The ancestors of the people we shall kill lacked the courage to make such a sacrifice and continued as slaves.
Trang 543 - I am at a loss to find words with which to express my chagrin and grief at having given you, a man to whom I owe everything and for whom I would gladly lay down my life, cause for displeasure with me.
Trang 390 - I suppose it's too much to hope that I could have a regiment in your division, because I'm still almost three years away from my colonelcy, but I think I could do a damn good job of commanding a regiment.
Trang 730 - I can say this, that throughout the campaign in Europe I know of no error I made except that of failing to send a Combat Command to take Hammelburg. Otherwise, my operations were, to me, strictly satisfactory.
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