Stanley Hirshson
Autor/a de General Patton: A Soldier's Life
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Stanley P. Hirshson is professor of history at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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One of the extraordinary tactical commanders in history and certainly the finest tactical commander in 20th century U.S. History. Patton is spent a mere 13 months in combat to create this legacy, in World War I he participated in the Saint Mihiel Capaign and the Meuse-Argonne Campaign and in World War II he participated in Operation Torch and the North African Campaign, Tunisia, Sicily, the invasion of France in the Lorraine and Rhineland Campaign as well as the Ardennes and Central European Campaigns.
An anachronism who was both refined and educated as well a profane and prone to outbursts he is too complex to put in a box. A better fighter but less political than Eisenhower, a more aggressive general but less concerned with logistics than Bradley. George Patton is that rare breed who lives in a glass box that says break only in case of war.
One must decide for themselves the value of George Patton’s legacy, count me among those who see’s the flawed and complex individual who saved countless lives through his exceptional use of combined infantry and armor engagement, who helpful propel armor and combined arms forward.… (més)