AN UNPRECEDENTED EXPLORATION OF THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF A LEGENDARYAMERICAN WARRIORMilitary Book Club® Main Selection History Book Club® Featured Alternate In nine months and eight days of campaigning during World War II, the Third United States Army of George S. Patton Jr. moved faster and farther, killed or captured more of the enemy, and liberated more cities, towns, and villages than any other army in World War II, and quite possibly, in the history of warfare. In Patton's Drive, acclaimed historian Alan Axelrod tells the story of how a young man who, in the words of Dwight D. Eisenhower,…mehr
AN UNPRECEDENTED EXPLORATION OF THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF A LEGENDARYAMERICAN WARRIORMilitary Book Club® Main Selection History Book Club® Featured Alternate In nine months and eight days of campaigning during World War II, the Third United States Army of George S. Patton Jr. moved faster and farther, killed or captured more of the enemy, and liberated more cities, towns, and villages than any other army in World War II, and quite possibly, in the history of warfare. In Patton's Drive, acclaimed historian Alan Axelrod tells the story of how a young man who, in the words of Dwight D. Eisenhower, was "born to be a soldier," became a modern American general and one of the greatest field commanders of the twentieth century. Beginning with a dramatic account of Patton's magnificent drive across Europe during World War II, Axelrod looks back to the decades before the war and traces the trajectory that revealed the commander's fighting destiny. In a refreshingly clear, colloquial voice, Axelrod leads us through the determining episodes of Patton's life and the results they produced. In doing so he weaves a story rich with new insights-a story as absorbing as a great novel, but one in which history truly comes alive.
After receiving his Ph.D. (with emphasis on American literature and culture) from the University of Iowa in 1979, and serving in the core curriculum of that Big 10 school as a graduate teaching assistant, Alan Axelrod taught at Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, Illinois) during 1979-80 and at Furman University (Greenville, South Carolina) from 1980 to 1982. He entered publishing in 1982 as associate editor with the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (Winterthur, Delaware). After a brief stint as associate editor at Van Nostrand Reinhold (New York) in 1984, he became senior editor at Abbeville Press (New York) during 1984-91 and then vice president of Zenda, Inc., a consulting firm to museums and cultural institutions. In 1994, he left Zenda to become director of development (chief acquisitions editor) for Turner Publishing, Inc. (Atlanta), a subsidiary of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. In 1997, he founded The Ian Samuel Group, Inc., a creative services and book-packaging firm, and is its president. 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. PUBLISHED WORKS Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps (Lyons Press, 2007) (A Main Selection of the Military Book Club)Horrid Pit: The Battle of the Crater, the Civil War's Cruelest Mission (Carroll & Graf, 2007) Blooding at Great Meadows: Young George Washington and the Battle that Shaped the Man (Running Press, 2006) Profiles in Audacity: Great Decisions and How They Were Made (Sterling, 2006)Patton: A Biography (Palgrave Macmillan's Great Generals Series, 2006), series editor General Wesley K. ClarkThomas Jefferson (Alpha "Critical Lives" series biography, 2001)Benito Mussolini (Alpha "Critical Lives" series biography, 2001)Astronomy (Oryx Frontiers of Science Series) (with Christopher De Pree) (Oryx, 2000)Complete Idiot's Guide to Criminology (Macmillan/Alpha, 2002)Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I (Macmillan/Alpha, 2000)Complete Idiot's Guide to the 20th Century (Macmillan/Alpha, 1999)Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Revolution (Macmillan/Alpha, 1999)Complete Idiot's Guide to Jazz (Macmillan/Alpha, 1999)Complete Idiot's Guide to Astronomy (with Christopher De Pree) (Macmillan/Alpha, 1999; Second Edition, 2001)Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War (Macmillan/Alpha, 1998)Complete Idiot's Guide to Mixing Drinks (Macmillan/Alpha, 1998)Complete Idiot's Guide to American History (Macmillan/Alpha, 1996; Second Edition, 2000)My Brother's Face: Portraits of the Civil War (with Charles Phillips; Chronicle Books, 1993)What Everyone Should Know About the 20th Century: 200 Events That Shaped Our Time (with Charles Phillips; Adams, 1993)Songs of the Wild West (Simon and Schuster/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992)The War between the Spies: A History of Espionage During the American Civil War (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992)A Chronicle of the Indian Wars: From Colonial Times to Wounded Knee (Prentice-Hall Press, 1992)What Every American Should Know About American History: 200 Events That Shaped the Nation (with Charles Phillips; Adams, 1992)Art of the Golden West (Abbeville Press, 1991)
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Table of Contents Introduction Noli Me Tangere ix Chapter 1"I Am Destined to Achieve Some Great Thing" 1 Chapter 2"A Very Timid Operation" 24 Chapter 3Giving Cobra its Venom 39 Chapter 4From Breakout to Breakthrough 65 Chapter 5"I Wish I Were Supreme Commander" 89 Chapter 6"Don't Be Fatuous, George!" 112 Chapter 7"I Belong to a Different Class" 139 Chapter 8Sierra Blanca 160 Chapter 9The Punitive Expedition 184 Chapter 10The Dogs of War 207 EpiloguePatton in Hell 250A Note on Sources 272Bibliography 273Index 277About the Author 288
Table of Contents Introduction Noli Me Tangere ix Chapter 1"I Am Destined to Achieve Some Great Thing" 1 Chapter 2"A Very Timid Operation" 24 Chapter 3Giving Cobra its Venom 39 Chapter 4From Breakout to Breakthrough 65 Chapter 5"I Wish I Were Supreme Commander" 89 Chapter 6"Don't Be Fatuous, George!" 112 Chapter 7"I Belong to a Different Class" 139 Chapter 8Sierra Blanca 160 Chapter 9The Punitive Expedition 184 Chapter 10The Dogs of War 207 EpiloguePatton in Hell 250A Note on Sources 272Bibliography 273Index 277About the Author 288
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