[PDF] Patton And His Pistols eBook

Author : Perry Parke
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0811767388

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Intrigued by hints of “the bigger man” behind the war personality of Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., the Curator of History of the West Point Museum and a former “Army wife” studied and compared innumerable legends and stories about him. The resulting profile is the unvarnished Patton, as the public saw him and as his friends and soldiers knew him. Based solidly on contemporary sources, many of them never before tapped by historians, Patton’s exploited in Mexico, in France in 1918, and during World War II, are strung together by kernels of truth often more startling than the fiction which has surrounded them. One of America’s most famous and controversial generals is depicted through his attitude toward his famous hand guns and uniforms, and the manner in which he reacted to war and to peace. Four pistols are featured in the book, because four pistols were featured in his ife. Sixteen pages of pertinent illustrations, many published for the first time…including the only known photograph of Patton carrying two pistols…accompany the documented narrative. The pistol expert will find detailed appendixes on General Patton’s favorite weapons and their accouterments. Patton and His Pistols is a book for everyone interested in Patton the leader and Patton the man.

Author : Milton F. Perry
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Pistols
ISBN :

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"Four pistols are featured in the book because four pistols were featured in his life. Sixteen pages of pertinent illustrations, many published for the first time...including the only known photograph of Patton carrying two pistols...accompany the documented narrative. The pistol expert will find detailed appendices on General Patton's favorite weapons and their accoutrements."--Amazon.com.

Author : Charles Lemons
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1304137163

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This is a one of a series of photo books on significant artifacts held by the U.S. Army Center of Military History. This volume covers the pair of pistols used by General George S. Patton Jr. during World War II - the M1873 Colt Peacemaker, and the S&W .357 Magnum. It includes a brief history of each revolver and a number of close up and detail color photographs of each. An added bonus is comparative shots of the two pistols with the two revolvers used during the filming of the movie "PATTON."

Author : George Smith Patton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780395735299

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The personal and candid account of General Patton's celebrated, relentless crusade across western Europe during World War II First published in 1947, War as I Knew It is an absorbing narrative that draws from Patton's vivid memories of battle and his detailed diaries, covering the moment the Third Army exploded onto the Brittany Peninsula to the final Allied casualty report. The result is not only a grueling, human account of daily combat and heroic feats--including a riveting look at the Battle of the Bulge--but a valuable chronicle by one of the most brilliant military strategists in history. Patton's letters from earlier military campaigns in North Africa and Sicily, complemented by a powerful retrospective of his guiding philosophies, further reveal a man of uncompromising will and uncommon character, which made "Georgie" a household name in mid-century America.

Author : Carlo D'Este
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 1996-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060927622

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Patton: A Genius for War is a full-fledged portrait of an extraordinary American that reveals the complex and contradictory personality that lay behind the swashbuckling and brash facade. According to Publishers Weekly, the result is "a major biography of a major American military figure." "This massive work is biography at its very best. Literate and meaty, incisive and balanced, detailed without being pedantic. Mr. D'Este's Patton takes its rightful place as the definitive biography of this American warrior." --Calvin L. Christman, Dallas Morning News "D'Este tells this story well, and gives us a new understanding of this great and troubled man."-The Wall Street Journal "An instant classic." --Douglas Brinkley, director, Eisenhower Center

Author : Rick Atkinson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 142994367X

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now, in The Guns at Last Light, he tells the most dramatic story of all—the titanic battle for Western Europe. D-Day marked the commencement of the final campaign of the European war, and Atkinson's riveting account of that bold gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows. The brutal fight in Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the disaster that was Operation Market Garden, the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and finally the thrust to the heart of the Third Reich—all these historic events and more come alive with a wealth of new material and a mesmerizing cast of characters. Atkinson tells the tale from the perspective of participants at every level, from presidents and generals to war-weary lieutenants and terrified teenage riflemen. When Germany at last surrenders, we understand anew both the devastating cost of this global conflagration and the enormous effort required to win the Allied victory. With the stirring final volume of this monumental trilogy, Atkinson's accomplishment is manifest. He has produced the definitive chronicle of the war that unshackled a continent and preserved freedom in the West. One of The Washington Post's Top 10 Books of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013

Author : J Furman Daniel
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1682470644

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While General George S. Patton Jr. remains an iconic figure seventy years after his death, few fully appreciate him as a strategic thinker. Indeed, his flamboyant personality often obscures the fact that he was a lifelong student of the military arts, a true strategic visionary, and a unique figure in American military history. This short volume introduces readers to a more complete and nuanced Patton. By tracing his intellectual development and connecting his views on strategic thought and history to the issues of the present day, this book offers a bold, fresh view on the famous general. Linking Patton’s success as a warfighter to his efforts as a thinker, this book hopes to kindle debate on managing human capital within the military. Most surely the book will demonstrate that—like Patton— the seeds of military success can be planted throughout a lifetime of formal and self-directed study of the military arts.

Author : Silvio Calabi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 158667160X

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Ernest Hemingway is a mythic writer and alpha male. As a hunter and conservationist, he drew greatly from the strong example of Theodore Roosevelt, and he much enjoyed teaching newcomers to shoot and hunt. Including short excerpts from Hemingway's works, these stories of his guns and rifles tell us as much about him as a lifelong, expert hunter and shooter and as a man.

Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250109337

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Patton is a concise and penetrating biography of one of history's greatest yet most controversial commanders and draws the life of an atavistic warrior-leader who defined modern warfare in the twentieth century's most desperate and destructive theater of combat: World War II. George S. Patton embodied contradiction: a cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created unparalleled rapport and loyalty with the lowliest private in his command; an outspoken racist, he led the only racially integrated U.S. military unit in World War II; an exuberantly profane man, he prayed daily and believed God had destined him for military greatness; a profoundly insecure individual, he made his Third Army the most self-confident and consistently victorious fighting force in the European theater. From Patton's boyhood battling dyslexia and becoming an avid reader, to his leadership strategies that modernized the U.S. army, Alan Axelrod delivers a fascinating account of Patton's life and legacy.