2/8: Rise and Fall and Legend of George S. Patton for Memorial Day. 2/8: The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark
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2/8: Rise and Fall and Legend of George S. Patton for Memorial Day. 2/8: The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark
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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 CBS I in the world. I'm John Vashworth professor Lloyd Clark whose no book is the commanders the leadership journeys of George Patton |
| 0:42.0 | Bernard McCummery and Irwin Rommel |
| 0:44.4 | We go to |
| 0:45.8 | Patton at war but surprisingly not at war in the Great War on Europe |
| 0:50.5 | You will remember that the US did not enter that war until 1917 |
| 0:56.1 | However Patton in 1916 found his way on to the expeditionary force led by |
| 1:02.9 | John Pershing in to Mexico |
| 1:05.2 | What striking about this with all the time they had on their hands is that Patton wound up making what he called an |
| 1:12.5 | Am a |
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| 1:14.8 | vehicle attack on |
| 1:16.8 | One of Pancho v. Is lieutenants Julio Cardanis and |
| 1:20.8 | Surprising to me professor at this point Patton has this |
| 1:25.3 | imagination that I'm going to be a hero and |
| 1:29.1 | He kills the man he shoots him dead. He launches the attack did the death in any way show up in his writing to his parents at this time |
| 1:39.0 | Did he pause about it shooting a man is different than imagining it? |
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