“I didn’t get frightened until three weeks after it had begun, when I began to read the American papers and found … how near we were to being whipped,” President Dwight D. Eisenhower confessed at a ...

The general "led a life of adventure, fighting in almost every major American twentieth century conflict," the National World War II Museum notes. "He often led from the front, and he almost always ...

Introduction: Command and controversy -- To the Army born -- Cadet, soldier, athlete, swordsman -- In pursuit of Pancho Villa -- The Great War and the new weapon -- At war with peace -- Restless ...

George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and ...

Peter Tonguette’s commendable essay on “Patton,” the classic 1970 war film by Franklin J. Schaffner, was most appropriate for Memorial Day weekend (“An Epic of Potent Patriotism,” Masterpiece, May 24) ...

GROWING UP PATTON: Reflections on Heroes, History and Family Wisdom. By Benjamin Patton with Jennifer Scruby. Berkley. 355 pages. $26.95. Benjamin Patton is the grandson of the iconic World War II ...