This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

The Commanders, 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 war 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's followed of 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 in Good Evening.

Your book is a treat for me because you put these three men,

George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Irwin Rommel,

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 youth that he was well-to-do?

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