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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."
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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.
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''Martin Blumenson has written an extraordinary book about my father.'' --Ruth Ellen Patton Totten
''A gem of a biography, full of insights on the highly complex character of George S. Patton. It is gracefully written and -- as we expect from Blumenson -- authoritative. No previous work on Patton can match it.'' --Stephen E. Ambrose, New York Times bestselling author
''A detailed and persuasive study of Patton's character.'' --Publishers Weekly
''The best explanation of the Patton mystique we have had -- or are likely to have.'' --Robert Sherrod, World War II correspondent and historian
''Superb . . . Nobody knows Patton like Martin Blumenson, and nobody can tell his story with such verve and introspection.'' --Charles B. MacDonald, author of A Time for Trumpets
''A gem of a biography, full of insights on the highly complex character of George S. Patton. It is gracefully written and -- as we expect from Blumenson -- authoritative. No previous work on Patton can match it.'' --Stephen E. Ambrose, New York Times bestselling author
''A detailed and persuasive study of Patton's character.'' --Publishers Weekly
''The best explanation of the Patton mystique we have had -- or are likely to have.'' --Robert Sherrod, World War II correspondent and historian
''Superb . . . Nobody knows Patton like Martin Blumenson, and nobody can tell his story with such verve and introspection.'' --Charles B. MacDonald, author of A Time for Trumpets
''A gem of a biography, full of insights on the highly complex character of George S. Patton. It is gracefully written and -- as we expect from Blumenson -- authoritative. No previous work on Patton can match it.'' --Stephen E. Ambrose, New York Times bestselling author
''A detailed and persuasive study of Patton's character.'' --Publishers Weekly
''The best explanation of the Patton mystique we have had -- or are likely to have.'' --Robert Sherrod, World War II correspondent and historian
''Superb . . . Nobody knows Patton like Martin Blumenson, and nobody can tell his story with such verve and introspection.'' --Charles B. MacDonald, author of A Time for Trumpets
''A gem of a biography, full of insights on the highly complex character of George S. Patton. It is gracefully written and -- as we expect from Blumenson -- authoritative. No previous work on Patton can match it.'' --Stephen E. Ambrose, New York Times bestselling author
''A detailed and persuasive study of Patton's character.'' --Publishers Weekly
''The best explanation of the Patton mystique we have had -- or are likely to have.'' --Robert Sherrod, World War II correspondent and historian
''Superb . . . Nobody knows Patton like Martin Blumenson, and nobody can tell his story with such verve and introspection.'' --Charles B. MacDonald, author of A Time for Trumpets
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- Publication date1985
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