Patton

<p>This magnificent biography by the world's foremost expert on the life of George S. Patton portrays the many faces of the general with uncompromising insight: the gruff demanding public front known (and feared) by millions; the sensitive intellectual visage shown to intimates; and the self-conscious emotional religious man only a handful of people ever met. Martin Blumenson deftly explores the life of this American hero a paradoxical man who inspired others to greatness but who sometimes questioned the greatness within himself.</p><p>Illustrated with 64 photographs many from the Patton family archives <em>Patton: The Man Behind the Legend 1885-1945</em> is a dramatic and memorable portrait of a complex American hero a man called the greatest combat general of modern times.