Last Shots for Patton's Third Army
Author: Robert Paul Fuller
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 097405190X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Paul Fuller
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 097405190X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hugh Marshall Cole
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 740
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This account focuses on the tactical operations of the Third Army and its subordinate units between 1 September and 18 December 1944.
Author: Brenton Greene Wallace
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780811728966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dwight Eisenhower once said of General George Patton, "He was one of those men born to be a soldier... whose gallantry and dramatic personality inspired all he commanded to deed of great valour." In this account of Patton and his Third Army, Wallace places Patton within the context of the army's operation and day-to-day movements as it roared through France, Luxembourg, and Germany. Wallace, Patton's former assistant chief of staff, draws his facts from stenographic records of daily staff meetings, and provides insights and details unavailable to other historians.
Author: Michael Green
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Published: 2010-09-02
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1610601130
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Patton was champing at the bit to lead the D-Day invasion, but Eisenhower placed him in command of a decoy unit, the First U.S. Army Group. Nearly seven weeks after D-Day, Patton finally got his chance to take Third Army into battle. He began a ten-month rampage across France, driving through Germany and into Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and Austria. Along the way Third Army forces entered the Battle of the Bulge, breaking the siege of Bastogne. It was a turning point in the war, and afterward the Third Army pushed eastward again. Patton’s Third Army in World War II covers Patton’s command of Third Army with a focus on the armor. It was a new style of fighting, avoiding entrenched infantry warfare by continuously pushing forward, and it appealed to Patton’s hard-charging personality. Archival photos along with frequent quotes complete the portrait of Patton as well as his men as they fight their way across the Third Reich.
Author: George Smith Patton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780395735299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The personal and candid account of General Patton's celebrated, relentless crusade across western Europe during World War II First published in 1947, War as I Knew It is an absorbing narrative that draws from Patton's vivid memories of battle and his detailed diaries, covering the moment the Third Army exploded onto the Brittany Peninsula to the final Allied casualty report. The result is not only a grueling, human account of daily combat and heroic feats--including a riveting look at the Battle of the Bulge--but a valuable chronicle by one of the most brilliant military strategists in history. Patton's letters from earlier military campaigns in North Africa and Sicily, complemented by a powerful retrospective of his guiding philosophies, further reveal a man of uncompromising will and uncommon character, which made "Georgie" a household name in mid-century America.
Author: Frank Wayne Martin
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781933987101
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating, intelligent, often humorous memoir of World War II by a remarkable soldier, a scout working behind enemy lines for Patton's famed Third Army on the move.
Author: Richard Moody Swain
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0788178652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides an account, from the point of view of the U.S. Army forces employed, of the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War, from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait to the withdrawal of coalition forces from southeastern Iraq. It focuses on the Army's part in this war, particularly the activities of the Headquarters, Third Army, and the Army Forces Central Command (ARCENT). It looks especially at the activities of the VII Corps, which executed ARCENT's main effort in the theater ground force schwerpunkt -- General Schwarzkopf's "Great Wheel." This is not an official history; the author speaks in his own voice and makes his own judgments. Maps.
Author: Paul Dickson
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 2020-07-07
Total Pages: 583
ISBN-13: 0802147682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A must-read book that explores a vital pre-war effort [with] deep research and gripping writing.” —Washington Times In The rise of the G.I. Army, 1940–1941, Paul Dickson tells the dramatic story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World War II. In September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and initiated World War II, America had strong isolationist leanings. The US Army stood at fewer than 200,000 men—unprepared to defend the country, much less carry the fight to Europe and the Far East. And yet, less than a year after Pearl Harbor, the American army led the Allied invasion of North Africa, beginning the campaign that would defeat Germany, and the Navy and Marines were fully engaged with Japan in the Pacific. Dickson chronicles this transformation from Franklin Roosevelt’s selection of George C. Marshall to be Army Chief of Staff to the remarkable peace-time draft of 1940 and the massive and unprecedented mock battles in Tennessee, Louisiana, and the Carolinas by which the skill and spirit of the Army were forged and out of which iconic leaders like Eisenhower, Bradley, and Clark emerged. The narrative unfolds against a backdrop of political and cultural isolationist resistance and racial tension at home, and the increasingly perceived threat of attack from both Germany and Japan.
Author: David N. Spires
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a case study of one air-ground team's experience with the theory and practice of tactical air power employed during the climactic World War 2 campaigns against the forces of Nazi Germany.
Author: Lt.-Col. George Dyer
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2017-07-11
Total Pages: 758
ISBN-13: 1787206866
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Part II of a very fine, richly illustrated reference book on General Patton’s Third Army. The XII Corps fought from northern France to Austria in World War II. Constituted in the Organized Reserves in 1933, it was activated on 29 August 1942 at Columbia, South Carolina. XII Corps became operational in France as part of Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s Third Army on 1 August 1944. Initially commanded by Major General Gilbert R. Cook, bad health forced MG Cook to relinquish command to Major General Manton S. Eddy within three weeks. MG Eddy commanded the corps until late April 1945, when his own health problems forced him to turn over command to MG Stafford LeRoy Irwin.