Patton's Bulldog: The Life and Service of General Walton H. Walker - Hardcover

Heefner, Wilson Allen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 157249283X ISBN 13: 9781572492837

Publisher: White Mane Pub, 2002

Synopsis

From his earliest years growing up in the rolling hills of central Texas, Walton Walker had set his sights on an army career. Graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 1912, Walker served in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1914; commanded a machine gun battalion in France in 1918; led XX Corps in the vanguard of Patton's Third Army through France, Germany, and Austria in World War II; and commanded the understrength, ill-equipped, and outmanned Eighth Army during the darkest days of the Korean War.

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From the Publisher:

The Biography of a remarkable soldier. Walker led XX Corps in the vanguard of Patton’s Third Army through France, Germany, and Austria in World War II.

About the Author:

Wilson A. Heefner is a retired physician who has begun a second career as military historian. A native of Pennsylvania, Heefner holds degrees from Gettysburg College, the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and the University of Hawaii. He retired from the U.S. Army in the grade of colonel after 41 years of service as an enlisted man, infantry officer, and medical officer, and served as a private first class in Walker’s Eighth Army in 1950. Heefner is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. His broad civilian and military education and experience provide him with unique qualifications to write this first critical biography of General Walton H. Walker. He is also the author of 20th Century Warrior.

About this edition

• Publisher: White Mane Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 157249283X
• ISBN 13: 9781572492837
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 348