In nine months and eight days of campaigning during World War II, the Third United States Army of George S. Patton Jr. moved faster and farther, killed or captured more of the enemy, and liberated more cities and towns than any other army in the history of warfare. Patton's Drive tells the story of how a young man born to war became a modern American general, and one of the greatest field commanders of the twentieth century. Beginning with Patton's magnificent drive across Europe during World War II, Alan Axelrod, Ph.D., traces the trajectory that revealed the commander's destiny. There was the youthful captain who pursued Pancho Villa's guerrillas deep into Mexico, and the colonel who led America's first tank corps against the Germans in World War I. Dr. Axelrod also details how the two decades of peace between the world wars were, for Patton, a purgatory of physical and emotional torment.
