Patton: A Genius for War

Author:   Carlo D'Este
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
ISBN:  

9780060927622


Pages:   992
Publication Date:   27 September 1996
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Carlo D'Este
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint:   HarperPerennial
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 20.40cm
Weight:   0.812kg
ISBN:  

9780060927622


ISBN 10:   0060927623
Pages:   992
Publication Date:   27 September 1996
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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An instant classic. Never before has General George S. Patton, Jr. sprung back to life in all his heroic and complicated glory as in this first-rate biography.--Douglas Brinkley A major biography of the famous battlefield general by a superb historian of the Army where Patton rose to fame and fell into infamy.--Washington Post Book World Remarkably good.--New York Times Book Review


An instant classic. Never before has General George S. Patton, Jr. sprung back to life in all his heroic and complicated glory as in this first-rate biography.--Douglas Brinkley Remarkably good.--New York Times Book Review A major biography of the famous battlefield general by a superb historian of the Army where Patton rose to fame and fell into infamy.--Washington Post Book World


A major biography of the famous battlefield general by a superb historian of the Army where Patton rose to fame and fell into infamy. -- Washington Post Book World Remarkably good. . . . D'Este presents a picture that neither beautifies nor damns his subject. This is revisionism at its very best. -- New York Times Book Review An instant classic. Never before has General George S. Patton, Jr. sprung back to life in all his heroic and complicated glory as in this first-rate biography. -- Douglas Brinkley Of all the studies revealing Patton, D'Este's is by far the most complete. . . . This is the definitive biography. -- Martin Blumenson D'Este tells this story well, and gives us a new understanding of this great and troubled man. -- Wall Street Journal 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. -- Dallas Morning News


A major biography of the famous battlefield general by a superb historian of the Army where Patton rose to fame and fell into infamy. -- Washington Post Book World Remarkably good. . . . D'Este presents a picture that neither beautifies nor damns his subject. This is revisionism at its very best. -- New York Times Book Review An instant classic. Never before has General George S. Patton, Jr. sprung back to life in all his heroic and complicated glory as in this first-rate biography. -- Douglas Brinkley Of all the studies revealing Patton, D'Este's is by far the most complete. . . . This is the definitive biography. -- Martin Blumenson D'Este tells this story well, and gives us a new understanding of this great and troubled man. -- Wall Street Journal 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. -- Dallas Morning News


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Carlo D'Este, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and a distinguished military historian, is the author of the acclaimed biographies Patton: A Genius for War and Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life, among other books on World War II. He lives in Massachusetts.

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