Patton (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780688137953)

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."

Author: Martin Blumenson
ISBN-10: 0688137954
ISBN-13: 9780688137953
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Language: English
Published: 11/29/1994
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.11w x 0.88d