General george patton wife biography book club

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Lady of the Army: The Life of Mrs. George S. Patton

Most important, though, it is the story of a truly fascinating woman, told with love and a rowdy sense of humor by her daughter. Need Some Help? As an Amazon Affiliate, IndieReader may make commission on qualifying purchase. Buy on Amazon Buy on BookShop. Victory was impossible without Patton, and after returning to the field, his army was responsible for one of the most crushing advances in the history of warfare.

For FREE. Brandishing his famous pearl-handled pistols and driven by a profound belief that wars are won by killing the enemy as fast as possible, Patton slammed the tanks and men of the Third Army across Europe at a breakneck pace. Beatrice Ayer Patton. Ross Rojek, Manhattan Book Review. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident — and may very well have been an act of assassination.

Dedication to another, she emphasizes, does not require denial of the self, and Beatrice kept a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in Bostonian high society and military circles. 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.

SRP: She was an accomplished amateur pianist, spoke several languages, and enjoyed the fine arts, but expressed misgivings about life as a socialite: she hated small talk and dressed unpretentiously.

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All rights reserved. The West Point Cadet, however, was as hellbent on becoming a great battlefield commander as his sweetheart was on becoming his wife. Log in now. Only the German decision not to pursue them allowed the Americans to maintain a foothold in the area. While later books about Patton and even the contemporaneous coverage of Patton went to great lengths to explain what motivated his persona and how his training and personal courage impacted his career, very little attention was ever paid to Beatrice Patton, his wife, the mother of his children, and without any doubt, the most important figure in his life.

At a traffic intersection one day, Frank caught his first glimpse of the man who would control the next six months of his deployment, and whose lessons, and spirit, would shape the rest of his life. The Pattons wrote to each other regularly, and the affection and love is plain in their correspondence, from which van Steelandt liberally quotes.

IndieReader is the ultimate resource for indie authors! George S. Scott, in which he is portrayed as a swashbuckling, brash, profane, impetuous general who wore ivory-handled pistols into battle and slapped two hospitalized soldiers in Sicily. Robert Orlando explores whether a man of such a flawed character could have been right about his claim that because the Allied troops, some within miles of Berlin, or just outside Prague, were held back from capturing the capitals so Soviet troops could move in, the Cold War was inevitable.

Dozens of books, hundreds of articles, millions of words have been written about his exploits in war, but now comes a unique book that completes the story of Patton the man and the warrior. After a decade in the art world, she serendipitously landed on the subject of Mrs. Patton lost his temper, and, accusing the man of cowardice, slapped him across the face with his glove and ejected him from the hospital.