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 ...

PATTON: ORDEAL AND TRIUMPH by Ladislas Farago. 885 pages. Obolensky. $9.95. The Brittany farmland had been bombed, strafed and shelled all day. Its rough-stone houses were now rubble, its fields ...

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 ...

General George Patton was the most feared American commander for the German generals on the Western Front. The Wehrmacht’s officers described Patton as America’s Rommel. The volume under review is the ...

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