1/8: Rise and Fall and Legend of George S. Patton for Memorial Day. 1/8: The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark
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🗓️ 29 May 2023
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1/8: Rise and Fall and Legend of George S. Patton for Memorial Day. 1/8: The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark
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 | Elevate your summer nights |
| 0:02.6 | With all the indulgence of the new Magnum Double Star Chaser |
| 0:07.2 | With cracking chocolate, popcorn flavor |
| 0:11.4 | And rich caramel sauce for the night |
| 0:14.2 | Pleasure is always on |
| 0:17.0 | Magnum, true to pleasure |
| 0:25.4 | This is CBS Eye on the World |
| 0:28.0 | Here's John Bachelor |
| 0:58.0 | Great War and it's followed the Second War in the 20th century |
| 1:02.0 | And now the professor using these examples and this detailed research |
| 1:08.0 | Is looking for the mystery of leadership |
| 1:11.0 | Once solved in the 19th and the 20th |
| 1:13.0 | And here we are in the 21st |
| 1:15.0 | Always leadership |
| 1:16.0 | Professor, congratulations in good evening |
| 1:19.0 | Your book is a treat for me |
| 1:21.0 | Because you put these three men |
| 1:23.0 | George Patton, Bernard Montgomery |
| 1:26.0 | Everyone rommel against each other's styles and schooling and the accidents of history |
| 1:32.0 | But at the same time very economically they come together on the world stage not once, not twice but thrice |
| 1:39.0 | Over the first half of the second of the 20th century |
| 1:43.0 | So we begin with George Patton |
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