6/8: Rise and Fall and Legend of George S. Patton for Memorial Day. 6/8: The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark
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6/8: Rise and Fall and Legend of George S. Patton for Memorial Day. 6/8: 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 | Get up and at it. That's my mother used to say. |
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| 0:30.0 | I'm John Bachelorette with Professor Lloyd Clark, the leadership journey of George Patton, Bernard McCormory, and Erwin Rommel, the book is entitled The Commanders. |
| 0:45.0 | Rommel goes to North Africa in March of 41 and goes to Libya. |
| 0:49.0 | And we're going to start with what we believe to be the successful rise of Bernard McCormory's skill set as a trainer, as a lecturer, as a scholar of the battlefield, a man who pictures things in his mind before he gives the order and he's not looking for debate. |
| 1:11.0 | He's not looking for another method or committee work. This is a man who dictates. |
| 1:17.0 | He had a father who preached and when he gets into the pulpit, this is the word of the Lord. |
| 1:23.0 | And it is the word of Bernard McCormory. |
| 1:26.0 | So Bernard McCormory is assigned to the eighth army, my note here, with some expectation that he will be able to turn around what has been a catastrophe so far. |
| 1:40.0 | With the Germans and the Italians pushing them around. |
| 1:44.0 | So by January of 42 is my reading here. I'm going pretty fast. |
| 1:51.0 | By January of August of 42, it's August of January of 42. |
| 1:57.0 | He takes up the southeastern command for the 100,000 and then he's pushed to the eighth army, which is in Cairo. |
| 2:06.0 | He takes Freddy D. Ngan, his brother-in-law with him and everybody in the eighth army is curious about this man. |
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