Before General George S. Patton became famous in Europe, he proved his worth in the harsh deserts of North Africa. Facing the ...

One of the most distinguished American historians of WWII returns with an outstanding parallel biography of George Patton and Erwin Rommel. The research is thorough, the quality of the writing superb.

During a dinner in Saigon with some news correspondents in 1971, Gen. Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Vietnam, was asked his opinion of the movie, "Patton." Abrams, who had served under the ...

The General was restless. George Smith Patton Jr., who had long ago boasted that nothing would please him so much as to get in a tank and joust, medievally and to the death, with a single tank ...

“Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War” (Crown Publishing, 448 pages, $30), by Terry Brighton: During a dinner in Saigon with some news correspondents in 1971, Gen. Creighton Abrams, the U.S.

PATTON: ORDEAL AND TRIUMPH by Ladislas Farago. 885 pages. Obolensky. $9.95. The Brittany farmland had been bombed, strafed and shelled all day. Its rough-stone houses were now rubble, its fields ...

In WWII the U.S., Great Britain and Germany each produced a ground commander who stood out from the rest and who has come to define their countries' respective ways of war. Brighton combines archival ...

Google has chosen a General in their War With Facebook – VP Engineering Vic Gundotra, we’ve heard from multiple sources. This is the person who will control overall product strategy and execution ...

History is full of great rivalries: David vs. Goliath, Patton vs. Rommel, Kanye vs. mankind’s tolerance. But none is more heated than the rivalry between people who ride motorcycles and people who ...