Christman, Dallas Morning News D'Este tell s this story well, and gives us a new understanding of this great and troubled man.-The Wall Street Journal An instant classic. D'Este's Patton take s its rightful place as the definitive biography of this American warrior. Literate and meaty, incisive and ba lanced, detailed without being pedantic. This massive work i s biography at its very best. According to Publishers Weekly, the result is a major bio graphy of a major American military figure. Patton: A Genius for War is a full-fledged portrai t of an extraordinary American that reveals the complex and contr adictory personality that lay behind the swashbuckling and brash facade. WEINBERG, 'Times Literary Supplement' About the Author:īook Description Paperback. ‘This book is filled with new information about many people and subjects, but at the centre is an unforgettable character who struts across the pages, his virtues and his vices writ large, towards a destiny he sought with enormous energy.’ ‘The result of the author's meticulous documentation is to produce a Patton even weirder, even more unsettling than anything offered by the cinema or television. D'Este will hold your attention for all 800 pages, with his understanding of Patton's tortuous story, the alternating bluster and self-doubt until, in the end, the Furies came for him.’ He writes in that fluent, legible style that was the hallmark of the 'New Yorker' before Tina Brown tried to fashionabilise it. D'Este's fluent style and meticulous research capture Patton's extraordinary character and commend him to the Valhalla of warriors for which he always believed himself destined.’ ‘Carlo D'Este's superb biography unravels the deeper complexities of the individual as well as the maturity of his military mind. With full access to Patton's private and public papers, and the co-operation of his family, D'Este presents an acute portrait of Patton's career and shows not only the extrovert Patton of public perception but also Patton the intensely private man who could burst into tears, be charming or profane quite unexpectedly, but who trained himself for greatness with a determination matched by no other general in the twentieth century. Now, for the first time, Carlo d'Este reveals a very different, contradictory personality. Scott film 'Patton', in which he is portrayed as a brash 'Old Blood and Guts'. The public image of him has been influenced overwhelmingly by the George C. remains one of the most charismatic, misunderstood and controversial figures who ever set foot on the battlefields of the Second World War. Fifty years after his death, General George S.
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