Overview
""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 comprehensive biography of General George Patton draws on hitherto unavailable letters, diaries, and memoirs, uncovering many new facts to create an insightful and definitive portrait of an American military hero. Fifty years after his death, General George S. Patton Jr. remains one of the most colorful, charismatic, misunderstood, and controversial figures ever to set foot on the battlefields of World War II. And the image of the man has been not a little influenced by the 1970 film Patton, starring George C. Scott, in which he is portrayed as a swashbuckling, brash, profane, impetuous general who wore ivory-handled pistols into battle and slapped two hospitalized soldiers in Sicily. It is one of the achievements of this riveting biography that it reveals the complex and contradictory personality that lay behind the facade. With full access to Patton's private and public papers, and the cooperation of the general's family, D'Este shows us not only the extrovert Patton of public perception but also the intensely private Patton - the devoted student of history, the poet, the humble man very unsure of his own abilities - who could burst into tears, be charming or insulting quite unexpectedly, and the Patton who trained himself for greatness with a determination matched by no other general in the twentieth century.
Full Product Details
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
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
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
Author Information
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.
