Author : Nat Frankel
Publisher : Jove Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1984-02
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 0515074497
Pattons Best
Nat Frankel
Pattons Best
Pattons Best Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Pattons Best book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Patton's War
Kevin M. Hymel
Author : Kevin M. Hymel
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826274632
Patton's War by Kevin M. Hymel Pdf
George S. Patton Jr. lived an exciting life in war and peace, but he is best remembered for his World War II battlefield exploits. Patton’s War: An American General’s Combat Leadership: November 1942–July 1944, the first of three volumes, follows the general from the beaches of Morocco to the fields of France, right before the birth of Third Army on the continent. In highly engaging fashion, Kevin Hymel uncovers new facts and challenges long-held beliefs about the mercurial Patton, not only examining his relationships with his superiors and fellow generals and colonels, but also with the soldiers of all ranks whom he led. Using new sources unavailable to previous historians and through extensive research of soldiers’ memoirs and interviews, Hymel adds a new dimension to the telling of Patton’s WWII story.
Fighting Patton
Harry Yeide
Author : Harry Yeide
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780760345924
Fighting Patton by Harry Yeide Pdf
DIVIn Fighting Patton, noted historian Harry Yeide is the first to examine legendary U.S. General George S. Patton Jr. through the eyes of his enemies: the opposing German commanders of WWII./div
Cinema and Classical Texts
Martin M. Winkler
Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780521518604
Cinema and Classical Texts by Martin M. Winkler Pdf
This book interprets films as visual texts and demonstrates the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema.
Seymour Justice LLP (Patton V. Dell)
Angela Burton
Author : Angela Burton
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781601568250
Seymour Justice LLP (Patton V. Dell) by Angela Burton Pdf
Seymour Justice LLP (Patton v. Dell) involves Audrey Patton, a family law attorney who becomes the unwitting target of a rival’s ill will. This rival falsifies an online dating profile of Ms. Patton on a website that promotes extramarital affairs. Ms. Patton learns of the profile only after she receives a barrage of unwanted sexual solicitations by email from strangers who have viewed the fake profile. The situation escalates when Ms. Patton receives a text on her personal cell phone from a stranger who thinks they are supposed to be meeting for a date, and an angry client fires her from a pending divorce case discovering this salacious online account. Ms. Patton seeks the services of Seymour Justice LLP to unmask the anonymous person who created the fake account and to file a lawsuit against the individual for the harm she has suffered as a result. This innovative file creates an interactive learning experience that allows students the opportunity to perform essential legal tasks in a simulated law office setting, in which they act as junior associates or paralegals. They participate in every phase of representation, from client intake, to pleadings, and discovery. Their assorted tasks include substantive legal analysis, legal drafting, and administrative functions like time entry and conflict checks. Samples of forms, administrative files, correspondence and memoranda; social media and text message evidence; and exhibits make Seymour Justice LLP the ideal introduction to the administrative side of being a lawyer. Comprehensive teaching notes with problem sets are available for instructors.
General Patton's Best Friend
Richard Joseph Stillman
Author : Richard Joseph Stillman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bull terrier
ISBN : 0965090639
General Patton's Best Friend by Richard Joseph Stillman Pdf
The Best and the Brightest
David Halberstam
Author : David Halberstam
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780449908709
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam Pdf
David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain. "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”—The New York Times Using portraits of America’s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country’s recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic. Praise for The Best and the Brightest “The most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. . . . It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation’s search for its idealistic soul. The Best and the Brightest is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.”—The Boston Globe “Deeply moving . . . We cannot help but feel the compelling power of this narrative. . . . Dramatic and tragic, a chain of events overwhelming in their force, a distant war embodying illusions and myths, terror and violence, confusions and courage, blindness, pride, and arrogance.”—Los Angeles Times “A fascinating tale of folly and self-deception . . . [An] absorbing, detailed, and devastatingly caustic tale of Washington in the days of the Caesars.”—The Washington Post Book World “Seductively readable . . . It is a staggeringly ambitious undertaking that is fully matched by Halberstam’s performance. . . . This is in all ways an admirable and necessary book.”—Newsweek “A story every American should read.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : American literature
ISBN : OSU:32435072704489
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Patton's Principles
Porter B. Williamson
Author : Porter B. Williamson
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021845263
Patton's Principles by Porter B. Williamson Pdf
Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From
Robert Springer
Author : Robert Springer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781628469967
Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From by Robert Springer Pdf
Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues and the colorful life stories of blues performers. Equally important and, until now, inadequately studied are the lyrics. The international contributors to Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From explore this aspect of the blues and establish the significance of African American popular song as a neglected form of oral history. “High Water Everywhere: Blues and Gospel Commentary on the 1927 Mississippi River Flood,” by David Evans, is the definitive study of songs about one of the greatest natural disasters in the history of the United States. In “Death by Fire: African American Popular Music on the Natchez Rhythm Club Fire,” Luigi Monge analyzes a continuum of songs about exclusively African American tragedy. “Lookin’ for the Bully: An Enquiry into a Song and Its Story,” by Paul Oliver traces the origins and the many avatars of the Bully song. In “That Dry Creek Eaton Clan: A North Mississippi Murder Ballad of the 1930s,” Tom Freeland and Chris Smith study a ballad recorded in 1939 by a black convict at Parchman prison farm. “Coolidge’s Blues: African American Blues from the Roaring Twenties” is Guido van Rijn’s survey of blues of that decade. Robert Springer's “On the Electronic Trail of Blues Formulas” presents a number of conclusions about the spread of patterns in blues narratives. In “West Indies Blues: An Historical Overview 1920s-1950s,” John Cowley turns his attention to West Indian songs produced on the American mainland. Finally, in “Ethel Waters: ‘Long, Lean, Lanky Mama,’” Randall Cherry reappraises the early career of this blues and vaudeville singer
Snow and Steel
Peter Caddick-Adams
Author : Peter Caddick-Adams
Publisher : Random House
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409052272
Snow and Steel by Peter Caddick-Adams Pdf
Peter Caddick-Adams - one of the leading military historians of his generation - reviews one of the great final engagements of WW2: The Battle of the Bulge. Including specially commissioned maps, black and white photography, archive material and personal interviews, this is a riveting landmark study of a pivotal historical moment and perfect for readers of James Holland, John Keegan, Anthony Beevor and Max Hastings. 'A thought-provoking and compelling account of one of the most iconic battles of the Second World War. Brilliant' -- James Holland 'Caddick-Adams knows more about the Bulge than any other historian I have read...I admire his originality...Snow and Steel offers an authoritative narrative of the drama...' -- Max Hasting, The Sunday Times 'An encyclopaedic and eminently readable book' -- Times Literary Supplement 'A compelling read' -- ***** Reader review 'The definitive Bulge history' -- ***** Reader review 'Absolutely brilliant book' -- ***** Reader review 'Brilliant read. Captivating and informative' -- ***** Reader review 'Excellent, authoritative and very well written' -- ***** Reader review ******************************************************************************************** Snow and Steel is a huge reassessment of Hitler's last great throw of the dice: 'The Battle of the Bulge', the battle for the Ardennes from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. This is an utterly fascinating five weeks when for a time it looked like Hitler had outflanked the allied armies pushing toward the Rhine and might just throw them back to the Normandy beaches. It is also the context for the catastrophic events at Bastogne depicted so graphically in Band of Brothers. For military history fans this is one of those touchstone battles of World War Two, written by an author with a world-wide reputation. With specially commissioned maps, photographs, primary archival material and personal interviews, this is a truly controversial, commercial and landmark book.
Advance and Destroy
John Rickard
Author : John Rickard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813134567
Advance and Destroy by John Rickard Pdf
In the winter of 1944–1945, Hitler sought to divide Allied forces in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Luxembourg and Belgium. He deployed more than 400,000 troops in one of the last major German offensives of the war, which became known as the Battle of the Bulge, in a desperate attempt to regain the strategic initiative in the West. Hitler’s effort failed for a variety of reasons, but many historians assert that Lieutenant General George S. Patton Jr.’s Third Army was ultimately responsible for securing Allied victory. Although Patton has assumed a larger-than-life reputation for his leadership in the years since World War II, scholars have paid little attention to his generalship in the Ardennes following the relief of Bastogne. In Advance and Destroy, Captain John Nelson Rickard explores the commander’s operational performance during the entire Ardennes campaign, through his “estimate of the situation,” the U.S. Army’s doctrinal approach to problem-solving. Patton’s day-by-day situational understanding of the Battle of the Bulge, as revealed through ULTRA intelligence and the influence of the other Allied generals on his decision-making, gives readers an in-depth, critical analysis of Patton’s overall effectiveness, measured in terms of mission accomplishment, his ability to gain and hold ground, and a cost-benefit analysis of his operations relative to the lives of his soldiers. The work not only debunks myths about one of America’s most controversial generals but provides new insights into his renowned military skill and colorful personality.
Patton in Mexico
Michael Lee Lanning
Author : Michael Lee Lanning
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811770736
Patton in Mexico by Michael Lee Lanning Pdf
Had Lieutenant George S. Patton not served on the southern border during the Mexican Expedition of 1916, there might never have been a General George S. Patton who took the world by storm as a bold and daring commander during World War II. Relying on Patton’s detailed personal journals of his eight months in Mexico, Michael Lee Lanning describes the young officer’s exploits during the hunt for Pancho Villa. As an aide to General John Pershing, Patton learned leadership and logistics from the man who would soon command American forces in World War I. Begging for a field command, he received it—and led the first motorized attack in U.S. military history and may or may not have killed two of Villa’s lieutenants. The press ate it up, and Patton learned not only how much he loved attention, but how to promote himself. In Mexico are the roots of Patton the World War II general, and Lanning tells the story deftly, focusing on Patton the man as well Patton the commander, and always casting an eye forward to Patton’s future career. This is how Patton became Patton.
Marshall and His Generals
Stephen R. Taaffe
Author : Stephen R. Taaffe
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700619429
Marshall and His Generals by Stephen R. Taaffe Pdf
General George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U.S. Army during World War II, faced the daunting task not only of overseeing two theaters of a global conflict but also of selecting the best generals to carry out American grand strategy. Marshall and His Generals is the first and only book to focus entirely on that selection process and the performances, both stellar and disappointing, that followed from it. Stephen Taaffe chronicles and critiques the background, character, achievements, and failures of the more than three dozen general officers chosen for top combat group commands—from commanders like Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur to some nearly forgotten. Taaffe explores how and why Marshall selected the Army’s commanders. Among his chief criteria were character (including “unselfish and devoted purpose”), education, (whether at West Point, Fort Leavenworth, or the Army War College), and striking a balance between experience and relative youth in a war that required both wisdom and great physical stamina. As the war unfolded, Marshall also factored into his calculations the combat leadership his generals demonstrated and the opinions of his theater commanders. Taaffe brings into sharp focus the likes of Eisenhower, MacArthur, George Patton, Omar Bradley, Walter Krueger, Robert Eichelberger, Courtney Hodges, Lucian Truscott, J. Lawton Collins, Alexander “Sandy” Patch, Troy Middleton, Matthew Ridgeway, Mark Clark, and twenty-five other generals who served in the conflict. He describes their leadership and decision-making processes and provides miniature biographies and personality sketches of these men drawn from their personal papers, official records, and reflections of fellow officers. Delving deeper than other studies, this path-breaking work produces a seamless analysis of Marshall’s selection process of operational-level commanders. Taaffe also critiques the performance of these generals during the war and reveals the extent to which their actions served as stepping stones to advancement. Ambitious in scope and filled with sharp insights, Marshall and His Generals is essential reading for anyone interested in World War II and military leadership more generally.
Patton's Third Army at War
George Forty
Author : George Forty
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612003160
Patton's Third Army at War by George Forty Pdf
The story of Gen. George S. Patton’s magnificent Third Army as it advanced across Nazi-occupied Europe and into Hitler’s redoubt. Includes photos. As America’s own answer to the Blitzkrieg, Third Army’s actions from the Normandy coast across France and Germany to Austria gave a new dimension to the term “fluid warfare.” They only needed one general order—to seek out the enemy, trap, and destroy them. This they did, relentlessly overcoming every obstacle thrown in their way. Third Army’s story is one of teamwork, of armor, infantry, and aircraft working together with a perfection that amazed even the Germans, who’d always considered themselves the masters of the mobile offensive. Though Third Army is often remembered for its tank spearheads, like the 4th Armored Division, these pages also give credit to the brave infantry divisions which butted their heads against fortresses such as Metz with ultimate success. It is also the story of a triumph of administration as thousands of trucks carried forward the vital supplies to keep the army on the move and fighting. When a German counteroffensive nearly burst through the US lines in the Ardennes, it was Patton’s Third Army that turned on its heel and immediately drove in the “Bulge,” ending Hitler’s last great hope for success in the west. Afterward nothing could stop it as it crossed the Rhine and overran the Reich. Much of Third Army’s greatness, driving force, and will to win, was owed to one man—Gen. George Smith Patton Jr.—and a significant part of this book is devoted to him alone. In these pages, a renowned military historian gives a vivid impression in words and pictures of what it was like to live and fight with Patton’s men. Full of eyewitness accounts, photographs, and maps, it relates the full story of how America’s most dynamic fighting formation led the Allied effort against the Nazis’ seemingly invincible European empire.