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In Patton, Montgomery, Rommel, one of Britain's most completed military scholars reveals an unprecedented review of the land battle in the North African and Western european theaters, as well as their key commanders—three men who also happened to be the most powerful dramatis personae of World War II.
Beyond spellbinding depictions of pivotal confrontations at El Alamein, Monte Cassino, and the Ardennes forest, author-scholar Terry Brighton illuminates the personal motivations and historical occurrences that propelled the three men's careers: how Patton's, Montgomery's, and Rommel's Great War experiences helped to mildew their design of command—and exactly how, exactly, they managed to apply their probably megalomaniacal personalities (and hitherto unrecognized politics acumen and tact) to advance their careers and strategic eyesight.
Starting new strategies of inquiry into the lives and careers of three men broadly profiled by scholars and popular historians similarly, Brighton definitively answers numerous lingering and controversial questions: Was Patton really as vainglorious in real life as he was portrayed to be on the big screen?—and exactly how have his tireless advocacy of "mechanized cavalry" forever change the facial skin of battle? Was Monty's dogged publicity-seeking driven by his own need for popularity or by his want to state for Britain a leadership role in postwar global order?—and exactly how have this prickly "commoner" manage to earn devotion and esteem from enlisted men and nobility similarly? How might the battle have concluded if Rommel had had more tanks?—and what important philosophical difference between him and Hitler made such an outcome practically impossible?
Abetted by new major source material and animated by Terry Brighton's matchless storytelling gifts, Patton, Montgomery, Rommel offers critical new interpretations of the Second World War as it was experienced by its three most flamboyant, controversial, and influential commanders—and augments our understanding of each of their perceptions of battle and leadership.
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