Patton's Madness
The Dark Side of a Battlefield Genius
Erschienen am 15. Dezember 2019
160 Seiten
978-0-8117-6898-6 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Dwight Eisenhower called General George S. Patton "mentally unbalanced" and "just like a time bomb," and indeed, the egotistical, mercurial, aggressive Patton is perhaps as well known for his questionable behavior and eccentric beliefs as for his daring battlefield exploits. In a brief but probing assessment of Patton's life based on strong research in primary sources and knowledge of psychology, Jim Sudmeier considers the mind of Patton: what made this military genius tick? To what extent was Patton's boldness and brilliance as a general, his willingness to welcome risk and danger, connected to his unstable personality? Sudmeier presents a myth-shattering reconsideration of one of military history's most famous commanders.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
PA
USA
Illustrationen
39 BW Photos, 6 Maps, 6 Tables
Dateigröße
6,64 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8117-6898-6 (9780811768986)
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Person
Jim Sudmeier is a scientist and writer originally from Minneapolis. He holds degrees from Carleton College and Princeton University, has taught at UCLA and UC Riverside, has held a National Institutes of Health fellowship at Oxford, and for twenty-eight years before his retirement was senior lecturer at Tufts Medical School. In 2006, he won a first-place award at the Houston Film Festival for screenwriting Patton's Secret Mission.
Inhalt
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Mexican Trophy Hunt
- Charging into the Million-Dollar Wound
- Social Climber and People User
- The Spoiledest Boy in the World
- Maternal Love Lost
- Personality Disorders
- Dumping on Subordinates
- Patton versus Eisenhower and Everybody Else
- Poet, Inventor, Mechanical Genius,Designer, Hero
- Brilliant Strategist? Led from the Front?
- Vanity Case
- Liberating Bastogne,Patton's Finest Moment
- The Hammelburg Raid-Not His "Only Mistake"
- Patton and Leadership
- Epilogue
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
