"LET THE HERO, BORN OF WOMAN, CRUSH THE SERPENT WITH HIS HEEL:" 6/8: The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark
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🗓️ 18 September 2023
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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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| 0:00.0 | This isn't just midweek football. |
| 0:02.2 | It's wide-eyed, shirtless jordies on a European tour. |
| 0:05.8 | It's noisy neighbours turn trebles winners doing the post-NAM. |
| 0:09.6 | It's the Red Devils burning with scores to settle. |
| 0:12.5 | It's the young gunners all fired up if their sights set on glory. |
| 0:16.4 | It's the chance to compete with Europe's elite. |
| 0:19.2 | This isn't just football, this is everything. |
| 0:21.6 | What dreams are better? |
| 0:23.1 | What's the way for Champions League and Europa League live an exclusive on TMT Sports? |
| 0:30.0 | I'm John Bachelorette with Professor Lloyd Clarke, the leadership journey of George |
| 0:40.4 | Patton Bernard McCummery and Erwin Rommel, the book is in total of the commanders. |
| 0:45.7 | Rommel goes to North Africa in March of 41 and goes to Libya. |
| 0:49.3 | We're going to start with what we believe to be the successful rise of Bernard McCummery's |
| 0:57.5 | skill set as a trainer, as a lecturer, as a scholar of the battlefield, a man who pictures |
| 1:06.7 | things in his mind before he gives the order and he's not looking for debate. |
| 1:11.4 | He's not looking for another method or committee work. |
| 1:14.9 | This is a man who dictates. |
| 1:18.1 | He had a father who preached and when he gets into the pulpit, this is the word of the Lord |
| 1:23.6 | and it is the word of Bernard McCummery. |
| 1:26.7 | So Bernard McCummery is assigned to the eighth army, my note here, with some expectation |
| 1:35.2 | that he will be able to turn around what has been a catastrophe so far with the Germans |
| 1:41.8 | and the Italians pushing them around. |
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