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

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🗓️ 19 January 2023

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

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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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The commander is a new book from Professor Lloyd Clark, Director of Research at the Center

0:46.2

for Army Leadership at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, as well as Professorio Research

0:52.1

Fellow in More Studies at Humanities Research Institute University of Buckingham. We address

0:58.4

once upon a time, man-born in the 19th century, who dominated the story, the tragedy of

1:05.7

the first and second war, the Great War, and its followed the second war in the 20th century.

1:11.6

And now the professor using these examples and this detailed research is looking for the

1:18.0

mystery of leadership, once solved in the 19th and the 20th. And here we are in the 21st,

1:24.6

always leadership. Professor, congratulations and good evening, your book is a treat

1:29.2

for me because you put these three men, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin

1:35.9

Rommel against each other's styles and schooling and the accidents of history. But at the same

1:42.8

time, very economically, they come together on the world stage not once, not twice, but

1:47.5

twice, twice. Over the first half of the second of the 20th century. So we begin with George

1:54.5

Patton. The reigning detail about George Patton is that he was born into a well-to-do family

2:00.9

and he never forgot it. Does that dominate stories about George Patton's youth that he was

2:06.6

well to do?

2:08.0

Yes, I think he recognized that he was a very privileged individual. He is family

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