Patton's Peers: The Forgotten Allied Field Army Commanders of the Western Front, 1944-45 by John A. English
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Patton's Peers: The Forgotten Allied Field Army Commanders of the Western Front, 1944-45 by John A. English
Through the force of his personality and the headline-grabbing advance of his U.S. Third Army, Gen. George S. Patton has eclipsed the other six men who also led Allied field armies in the epic campaign to liberate Northwest Europe in 1944-45. Certain to rank among the essential works of World War II history, Patton's Peers sheds long-overdue light on the contributions of these forgotten army commanders from Canada, Great Britain, the United States, and France while authoritatively retelling the eleven-month struggle from D-Day to Germany's surrender.
Harry Crerar commanded the First Canadian Army in the liberation of the Channel ports, but illness kept him out of the battle to open the Scheldt Estuary, one of Canada's greatest contributions to Allied victory.
Miles Dempsey, the youngest but longest continuously serving Allied army commander on the Western Front, led his British Second Army from Normandy to the Baltic -- including a 300-mile, ten-day dash from Falaise to Brussels.
Criticized for his performance in the Huertgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge, where the Germans bloodied his U.S. First Army, Courtney Hodges restored his reputation with the capture of the critical railway bridge at Remagen in March 1945.
William Simpson's U.S. Ninth Army served under British command from December 1944 to April 1945, participating in the Battle of the Rhineland and the envelopment of the Ruhr Pocket.
Alexander Patch, a forgotten commander on a largely forgotten front, directed the U.S. Seventh Army's invasion of Southern France in August 1944 and its subsequent drive through the Vosges Mountains to the Rhine.
The flamboyant Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and his French First Army captured Toulon and Marseilles in Southern France, then pushed north in a campaign to assist the Allies and pursue French national interests.
Veteran military historian John A. English unearths the vital roles played by these six generals. As the head of an army of several hundred thousand troops, each had to plan operations days and weeks in advance, coordinate air support, assess intelligence, give orders to corps commanders, manage a staff of sometimes difficult subordinates, and deal with superiors like Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, and Bernard Montgomery. Some performed less ably, while others rivaled Patton in their achievements. All deserve to be lifted from Patton's shadow.
Stackpole Books, Hardcover, 2009
This is a BRAND NEW book.
Through the force of his personality and the headline-grabbing advance of his U.S. Third Army, Gen. George S. Patton has eclipsed the other six men who also led Allied field armies in the epic campaign to liberate Northwest Europe in 1944-45. Certain to rank among the essential works of World War II history, Patton's Peers sheds long-overdue light on the contributions of these forgotten army commanders from Canada, Great Britain, the United States, and France while authoritatively retelling the eleven-month struggle from D-Day to Germany's surrender.
Harry Crerar commanded the First Canadian Army in the liberation of the Channel ports, but illness kept him out of the battle to open the Scheldt Estuary, one of Canada's greatest contributions to Allied victory.
Miles Dempsey, the youngest but longest continuously serving Allied army commander on the Western Front, led his British Second Army from Normandy to the Baltic -- including a 300-mile, ten-day dash from Falaise to Brussels.
Criticized for his performance in the Huertgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge, where the Germans bloodied his U.S. First Army, Courtney Hodges restored his reputation with the capture of the critical railway bridge at Remagen in March 1945.
William Simpson's U.S. Ninth Army served under British command from December 1944 to April 1945, participating in the Battle of the Rhineland and the envelopment of the Ruhr Pocket.
Alexander Patch, a forgotten commander on a largely forgotten front, directed the U.S. Seventh Army's invasion of Southern France in August 1944 and its subsequent drive through the Vosges Mountains to the Rhine.
The flamboyant Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and his French First Army captured Toulon and Marseilles in Southern France, then pushed north in a campaign to assist the Allies and pursue French national interests.
Veteran military historian John A. English unearths the vital roles played by these six generals. As the head of an army of several hundred thousand troops, each had to plan operations days and weeks in advance, coordinate air support, assess intelligence, give orders to corps commanders, manage a staff of sometimes difficult subordinates, and deal with superiors like Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, and Bernard Montgomery. Some performed less ably, while others rivaled Patton in their achievements. All deserve to be lifted from Patton's shadow.
Stackpole Books, Hardcover, 2009
This is a BRAND NEW book.
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