Hubert Essame (1896–1976)
Autor(a) de Patton: A Study in Command
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Obras de Hubert Essame
Passchendaele 1 exemplar(es)
Sicily 1 exemplar(es)
Aachen 1 exemplar(es)
Patton 1 exemplar(es)
The North-West Europe campaign, 1944-1945 1 exemplar(es)
Normandië, Het vervolg van D-Day 1 exemplar(es)
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1896-12-24
- Data de falecimento
- 1976-03-02
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Wokingham, Berkshire, England
- Local de falecimento
- West Wittering, West Sussex, England
- Ocupação
- army officer
- Organizações
- British Army
Membros
Resenhas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 14
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 325
- Popularidade
- #72,884
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 24
- Idiomas
- 2
Major-General H. Essame, who served as a Brigade Commander throughout the North-West Europe campaign and later became a renowned military historian, provides vivid insight into the life of Patton, from his promising early years as a young aide-de-camp in World War One, through to his eventual rise to become an equal of Manstein and Rommel.
Essame demonstrates how Patton overcame his enemies by working ‘in the light of the cavalry tradition—quick decision, speed in execution, calculated audacity; better a good plan violently executed now than a perfect plan next week.’ On no less than four occasions, Essame argues, he could have shortened the course of the war if Eisenhower had taken advantage of his genius — his unique ability to seize opportunities and exploit them to the fullest.
Patton the Commander looks beyond the flamboyant façade that Patton presented to the press and the world, giving a forthright and perceptive biography that deserves to be read by all interested in the greatest allied general of World War Two.… (mais)