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1/8: 20th Century Generalship: 1/8: The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark (Author)

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🗓️ 2 April 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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1/8: 20th Century Generalship: 1/8: The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Commanders-Leadership-Journeys-Bernard-Montgomery/dp/0802160220/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1IW4D1GLPGRA5&keywords=the+commanders+lloyd+clark&qid=1674136061&s=books&sprefix=THE+COMMANDERS%2Cstripbooks%2C141&sr=1-1

Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel became among the most recognized and successful military leaders of the 20th century. However, as acclaimed military historian Lloyd Clark reveals in his penetrating and insightful braided chronicle of their lives, they charted very different, often interrupted, paths to their ultimate leadership positions commanding hundreds of thousands of troops during World War II and celebrated as heroes in the United States, Britain, and Germany.

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:08.0

Here's John Bachelorette.

0:10.0

The commanders, a new book from Professor Lloyd Clark,

0:14.0

Director of Research at the Center for Army Leadership

0:17.0

at the Royal Military Academy at Sanders,

0:20.0

as well as Professorio Research Fellow in more studies

0:23.0

at Humanities Research Institute University of Buckingham.

0:27.0

We address, once upon a time,

0:30.0

men born in the 19th century,

0:32.0

who dominated the story, the tragedy,

0:35.0

of the first and second war,

0:37.0

the Great War, and its followed the Second War in the 20th century.

0:41.0

And now the professor using these examples

0:45.0

and this detailed research is looking for the mystery of leadership,

0:50.0

once solved in the 19th and the 20th,

0:52.0

and here we are in the 21st,

0:54.0

always leadership.

0:56.0

Professor, congratulations in good evening,

0:58.0

your book is a treat for me,

1:00.0

because you put these three men,

1:02.0

George Patton, Bernard Montgomery,

1:05.0

and Erwin Rommel against each other's styles

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