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When German forces broke through the Ardennes in December 1944, the Allied front seemed dangerously close to collapse. At a ...

Army Chief of Staff and Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur watched a brigade of steel-helmeted soldiers precisely align themselves in a straight four-column phalanx, bayonets affixed to rifles. He nodded his ...

Robert Orlando, a filmmaker, author, entrepreneur and scholar, addresses these questions in a new book titled “The Tragedy of Patton” and an accompanying film titled “Silence Patton.” Although he was ...

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2021. Pp. xviii, 436. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $39.95. ISBN: 0826222455 A Fresh Look at Patton’s Generalship from North Africa to Normandy At 345 ...

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, ALGIERS -- A high staff officer disclosed today that Lieut. Gen. George S. (Old Blood and Guts) Patton Jr. struck a shell-shocked soldier twice in a Sicilian hospital tent, then ...