2/8: 20th Century Generalship: 2/8: The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark (Author)
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2/8: 20th Century Generalship: 2/8: 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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| 0:35.1 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batsworth, Professor Lloyd Clark, whose |
| 0:38.8 | notebook is the commanders, the leadership journeys of George Patton, Bernard McCummery, |
| 0:42.8 | and Erwin Rommel. We go to Patton at war, but surprisingly not at war in the great war on |
| 0:49.7 | Europe. You will remember that the U.S. did not enter that war until 1917. However, Patton in 1916 |
| 0:58.2 | found his way on to the expeditionary force led by John Pershing in New Mexico. What striking |
| 1:05.7 | about this with all the time they had on their hands is that Patton wound up making what he called |
| 1:12.2 | a vehicle attack on one of Pancho v.s. lieutenants, Julio Cardanis, and surprising to me, |
| 1:21.7 | Professor, at this point, Patton has this imagination that I'm going to be hero. And he kills the man. |
| 1:30.4 | He shoots him dead. He launches the attack. Did the death in any way show up in his writing to his |
| 1:37.3 | parents at this time? Did he pause about it? Shooting a man is different than imagining it. |
| 1:44.5 | I don't think it prayed on his mind at all. This is a man who, from his first days in the army, |
| 1:53.0 | sought action, sought to be a hero and was willing to do whatever it took to be successful. However, |
| 2:00.2 | that might be defined in just getting onto the expedition to Mexico. He was not backwards in coming |
| 2:09.2 | forwards. He was always innovating. He was always pushing the boundaries. And therefore, he recognized |
| 2:16.4 | that he would have to take risks. And that if warfare was about anything, it was about defeating |
| 2:22.0 | the enemy. And if therefore somebody got in his way and he had to kill him, that was just the price |
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