One of the most distinguished American historians of WWII returns with an outstanding parallel biography of George Patton and Erwin Rommel. The research is thorough, the quality of the writing superb.

After the costly defeat at Kasserine Pass exposed serious weaknesses in American forces, General George S. Patton was sent to North Africa to restore discipline and confidence. Facing the experienced ...

By August 1944, Erwin Rommel was recovering from severe wounds in Germany while following the collapse of the German front in Normandy. From his sickbed, he recognized that George S. Patton’s newly ...

During a dinner in Saigon with some news correspondents in 1971, Gen. Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Vietnam, was asked his opinion of the movie, "Patton." Abrams, who had served under the ...

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The History Channel’s new ten-part series on George S. Patton—which began, inappropriately enough, on Friday, April 10, just in time for Easter—is an ambitious attempt to recast the age-old formula of ...

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 ...

“Patton,” at the Criterion Theater, is not a glorification of the World War II hero; it is a living monument to the tank commander who became a legend during his life-time, earning the nickname: “Old ...