Patton s Payback: The Battle of El Guettar and General Patton s Rise to Glory

Stephen L. Moore

ISBN 10: 0593183401 / ISBN 13: 9780593183403

Published by Penguin Putnam Inc, 2022

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2022. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Patton s Payback: The Battle of El Guettar and General Patton s Rise to Glory
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593183401
• ISBN 13: 9780593183403
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A stirring World War II combat story of how the legendary George Patton reinvigorated a defeated and demoralized army corps, and how his men claimed victory over Germany’s most-feared general, Erwin Rommel

“Moore brings you to the battlefield and into the mind of a fearless military genius.”—Brian Kilmeade, bestselling author of The President and the Freedom Fighter • “Essential reading.”—Kevin Maurer, #1 NYT bestselling coauthor of No Easy Day • “[Moore] has a smooth prose style and a firm grasp of detail.”—The Wall Street Journal

In March 1943, in their first fight with the Germans, American soldiers in North Africa were pushed back fifty miles by Rommel’s Afrika Korps and nearly annihilated. Only the German decision not to pursue them allowed the Americans to maintain a foothold in the area. General Eisenhower, the supreme commander, knew he needed a new leader on the ground, one who could raise the severely damaged morale of his troops. He handed the job to a new man: Lieutenant General George Patton.
 
Charismatic, irreverent, impulsive, and inspiring, Patton possessed a massive ego and the ambition to match. But he could motivate men to fight. He had just ten days to whip his dispirited troops into shape, then throw them into battle against the Wehrmacht’s terrifying Panzers, the speedy and powerful German tanks that U.S. forces had never defeated. Patton, who believed he had fought as a Roman legionnaire in a previous life, relished the challenge to turn the tide of America’s fledgling war against Hitler—and the chance to earn a fourth star.

About the Author

Stephen L. Moore, a sixth-generation Texan, is the author of multiple books on World War II, Vietnam, and Texas history, including As Good As Dead, Pacific Payback and Texas Rising.