This is a

a CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelor.

The Commander's a new book from Professor Lloyd Clark, Director of Research at the

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

as Professorial Research Fellow and More Studies at Humanities Research Institute,

University of Buckingham.

We address once upon a time, men born in the 19th century who dominated the story, the tragedy of the first and second war,

the great war and it followed the second war in the 20th century.

And now the professor using these examples and this detailed

research is looking for the mystery of leadership once solved in the 19th and

the 20th and here we are in the 21st.

Always leadership.

Professor, congratulations and good evening, your book is a treat for me

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

against each other's styles and schooling and the accidents of history,

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

over the first half of the second of the 20th century.

So we begin with George Patton.

The reigning detail about George Patton

is that he was born into a well-to-do family

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

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