“Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War” (Crown Publishing, 448 pages, $30), by Terry Brighton: During a dinner in Saigon with some news correspondents in 1971, Gen. Creighton Abrams, the U.S.

Historian Clark (Blitzkrieg) presents a fascinating group portrait of three of WWII’s most innovative and illustrious generals. A fierce advocate for tank warfare, George Patton commanded the Western ...

The General was restless. George Smith Patton Jr., who had long ago boasted that nothing would please him so much as to get in a tank and joust, medievally and to the death, with a single tank ...

General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had been thrown back at the northern end of the Mareth Line. In a 15-mile-wide gap between the Matmata Mountains and the seashore, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had ...

Author of the excellent A Few Bloody Noses: The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution, British historian Harvey turns his attention to military leadership with modestly successful ...

Before General George S. Patton became famous in Europe, he proved his worth in the harsh deserts of North Africa. Facing the cunning and ruthless maneuvers of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Patton took ...

General George Patton was the most feared American commander for the German generals on the Western Front. The Wehrmacht’s officers described Patton as America’s Rommel. The volume under review is the ...

“Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War” by Terry Brighton (Crown Publishing, 448 pgs., $30) During a dinner in Saigon with some news correspondents in 1971, Gen. Creighton Abrams, the U.S.