He had used it in France in 1940 and in North Africa in 1941–42. He believed in attacking faster than the enemy could understand the battlefield, bypassing resistance, breaking command links, and ...
One of the most distinguished American historians of WWII returns with an outstanding parallel biography of George Patton and Erwin Rommel. The research is thorough, the quality of the writing superb.
The General was restless. George Smith Patton Jr., who had long ago boasted that nothing would please him so much as to get in a tank and joust, medievally and to the death, with a single tank ...
Like actors and politicians, not all generals are created equal. Even in the most epoch-defining wars, a handful leave deep bootprints on history, while most remain specks silhouetted against the ...
Author of the excellent A Few Bloody Noses: The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution, British historian Harvey turns his attention to military leadership with modestly successful ...
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