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Alex Kershaw is a New York Times bestselling historian and journalist known for vivid narratives of World War II, including The Liberator and The Bedford Boys. His work examines ordinary heroes and pivotal campaigns, most recently explored in Patton's Prayer. Kershaw frequently contributes to documentaries and speaks widely on military history.
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Patton also wrote a letter to his wife, Beatrice, that day: Though this is the shortest day of the year, to me it seems interminable. We shoot the works on a chestnut pulling expedition in the morning. I am very confident that a great success is possible and I hope certain….. I have a room in a very…
Patton still had a war he wanted to win, and he was eager to get his Third Army moving again after the depressing debacle in Lorraine, which had resulted in the Third Army's greatest losses. In the last three months, his men had moved just fifty miles and incurred fifty thousand casualties—a third o…