Patton is an intimate look at the colorful, charismatic, and a sometimes controversial man who became the one general the Germans respected and feared the most during World War II.
George S. Patton Jr. is remembered as much for his tough, profane image as for his military skill. Few sense that this image represented an ideal and a command tool to Patton and that developing and projecting it was one of many struggles for a man forever in doubt about…
The Second World War, when it came in 1939, was unquestionably the outcome of the First, and in large measure its continuation. Its circumstances – the dissatisfaction of the German-speaking peoples with their standing among other nations – were the same, and so were its immediate causes, a dispute between…