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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Carlo D'EstePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint: HarperPerennial Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 20.40cm Weight: 0.812kg ISBN: 9780060927622ISBN 10: 0060927623 Pages: 992 Publication Date: 27 September 1996 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsAn 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 Author InformationCarlo 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |