[rollei_list] Re: OT - Best Patton biography?

  • From: Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,<rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:22:07 -0400

At 07:25 PM 9/18/2006, Jeffery Smith wrote: 

I don't know why I assume that a Rolleiflex user might also be a military
historian, but I came to that conclusion. Any suggestions out there as to
the best biography of General George S. Patton? I haven't read any of them,
including his autobiography.


One of the minor squibbles on my resume is that I am an Editor on H-War, an academic list sponsored by MSU. There are dozens of solid books on Patton but the most accessible are probably:

Blumenson, Martin. THE PATTON PAPERS. (Blumenson knew Patton and served under him on his staff in WWII, but the book is not a hagiography.)

d'Este, Carlo.  PATTON:  A GENIUS FOR WAR.

Farago, Ladislas.  PATTON:  ORDEAL AND TRIUMPH.

And, of course,

Patton, George S.  WAR AS I KNEW IT.

Bibliographic information is on the web: I have been unpacking cameras of late and haven't gotten around to the whole of my military history books, though most of my camera references other that Prochnow have surfaced.

Marc


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