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I'm John Bachelors with Professor Lloyd Clar.

The leadership journeys of George Patton, Bernard McCummery, and Irwin Rommel,

the book is entitled The Commanders.

Rommel goes to North Africa in March of 41.

He goes to Libya.

Or we're going to start with what we believe to be the successful rise of Bernard McCummery'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.

He's not looking for another method or committee work.

This is a man who dictates.

He had a father who preached and when he gets into the pulpit,

this is the word of the Lord and it is the word of Bernard McCummery.

So Bernard McCummery 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

with the Germans and the Italians pushing them around.

So by January of 42 is my reading here, I'm going pretty fast.

By January of August of 42, yes, August of January of 42, he takes up the southeastern command

for the hundred thousand and then he's pushed to the eighth army, which is in Cairo.

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