Patton's Drive: The Making of America's Greatest General - Couverture rigide

Axelrod, Alan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 159921539X ISBN 13 : 9781599215396

Editeur : Globe Pequot Press, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Axelrod Alan

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"Patton's Drive" tells the story of how a young man born to war - who believed himself the literal incarnation of all great warriors past - became a modern American general: in terms of enemy killed or captured, territory taken, and people liberated, the greatest field commander of World War II. It tells the story of Patton before the war that fully revealed his destiny, the youthful captain who pursued the guerrillas of Pancho Villa deep into Mexico and the still-young colonel who led America's first corps of tanks against the Germans in France during World War I. It details as well the terrible price a born warrior pays in time of peace, the two decades that separated the two world wars, an interval most inhabitants of the planet regarded as both blissful and all too brief, but that for Patton was a purgatory of physical and emotional torment, until his next Great War (WWII), which is also covered in depth.

Biographie de l'auteur

Axelrod has served as consultant to numerous museums and cultural institutions, including the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum (Rochester, New York), the Airman Memorial Museum (Suitland, Maryland), and the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (Winterthur, Delaware). He has been a creative consultant for (and on-camera personality in) The Wild West television documentary series (Warner Bros., 1993) and Civil War Journal (A&E Network, 1994), and he served as historical consultant for The Discovery Channel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Globe Pequot Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 159921539X
• ISBN 13: 9781599215396
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 287
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible