Military (11-Nov-1885 — 21-Dec-1945)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Alan Axelrod. Patton: A Biography. Gordonsville, VA: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006.

Martin Blumenson. Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945. HarperCollins. 1994. 320pp.

Carlo D'Este. A Genius for War: A Life of General George S. Patton. HarperCollins. 1995. 977pp.

Hubert Essame. Patton: A Study in Command. Scribner. 1974. 280pp.

Ladislas Farago. Patton: Ordeal and Triumph. Westholme Publishing. 2005. 896pp.

Stanley P. Hirshson. General Patton: A Soldier's Life. HarperCollins. 2003. 864pp.

Jonathan W. Jordan. Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership That Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe. Penguin. 2011. 654pp.

William B Mellor. General Patton: The Last Cavalier. Putnam. 1971. 191pp.

Roger H. Nye. The Patton Mind: The Professional Development of an Extraordinary Leader. Avery. 1993. 212pp.

Robert Holbrook Patton. The Pattons: A Personal History of an American Family. Brassey's. 1996. 320pp.

Charles M. Province. The Unknown Patton. Random House. 1985. 261pp.

Trevor Royle. Patton: Old Blood and Guts. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2005. 223pp.

Harry Hodges Semmes. Portrait of Patton. Appleton-Century-Crofts. 1955. 308pp.

Dennis E. Showalter. Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century. Berkley Caliber. 2005. 441pp.

David A. Smith. George S. Patton: A Biography. Greenwood Press. 2003. 130pp.

Brian Sobel. The Fighting Pattons. Bantam Doubleday Dell. 1997. 416pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

7. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.860)

8. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.549)

9. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1133)

10. Webster's American Biographies (p.803)

11. The MacMillan Dictionary of Military Biography (pp.338-40)

12. Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography (p.578)

13. A Biographical Dictionary of World War II (pp.147-48)

14. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.560)

15. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.389)

16. Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.805)

17. Who's Who in Modern History, 1860-1980 (p.259)

18. The Biographical Dictionary of World War II (pp.412-16)

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