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Informationen zum Autor Martin Blumenson, one of America's leading military historians, served as staff historian of Patton's Third Army. He is the author of many military histories, including The Patton Papers , hailed as "remarkable" by The New York Times. Klappentext This magnificent biography by the world's foremost expert on the life of George S. Patton portrays the many faces of the general with uncompromising insight: the gruff, demanding public front known (and feared) by millions; the sensitive, intellectual visage shown to intimates; and the self-conscious, emotional, religious man only a handful of people ever met. Martin Blumenson deftly explores the life of this American hero, a paradoxical man who inspired others to greatness but who sometimes questioned the greatness within himself. Illustrated with 64 photographs, many from the Patton family archives, Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945 is a dramatic and memorable portrait of a complex American hero, a man called "the greatest combat general of modern times." Zusammenfassung This magnificent biography by the world's foremost expert on the life of George S. Patton portrays the many faces of the general with uncompromising insight: the gruff! demanding public front known (and feared) by millions; the sensitive! intellectual visage shown to intimates; and the self-conscious! emotional! religious man only a handful of people ever met. Martin Blumenson deftly explores the life of this American hero! a paradoxical man who inspired others to greatness but who sometimes questioned the greatness within himself. Illustrated with 64 photographs! many from the Patton family archives! Patton: The Man Behind the Legend! 1885-1945 is a dramatic and memorable portrait of a complex American hero! a man called "the greatest combat general of modern times."
