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...Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, Farago...
...Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, Farago...
...Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, Farago...
This biography by Ladislas Farago. a military chronicler and World War II intelligence officer, is the longest, hardest and most informative look yet at George Patton. Yet it is painfully under-edited and overwrought. And Farago's digressions into higher political issues, coupled with perhaps the most illegible campaign maps ever printed, serve only to slow down the pace of Patton's breakneck "war of movement." More damagingly, the author has not fully marshaled his own conclusions on the contentious general...
Paper Army. At one point, Farago declares that Patton's "combination of dash and daring on the one side and enormous professional skill and savvy on the other qualified him even for the Supreme Command, which was eventually denied to him through the failure of his superiors to recognize and appreciate the intrinsic and overwhelming value of such a combination." But at another, he concedes that Patton's trigger temper and lack of political sophistication probably disqualified him for higher responsibilities. Patton botched his proconsul duties, first as the ruler of French Morocco in 1942-43, and later...