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Published by Stackpole Books
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
In March 1945, against the advice of his top subordinates, Gen. George Patton created a special task force to venture more than fifty miles behind enemy lines and liberate a POW camp near Hammelburg, Germany. The camp held some 1,500 American prisoners, including Patton’s son-in-law. Hampered by ambushes and a lack of fuel and even maps, the raid was a disaster, one of the worst mistakes of Patton’s legendary career. Out of some 300 men, only three dozen returned. Based on memoirs, diaries, combat reports, and interviews with survivors, Patton’s Last Gamble vividly recounts a mission Gen. Omar Bradley later said “began as a wild goose chase and ended in tragedy.”
Product Details
- Publisher: Stackpole Books (May 1, 2018)
- Length: 336 pages
- ISBN13: 9780811765954
Raves and Reviews
Praise for the author's The Maverick War: Chennault and the Flying Tigers
Schultz’s accounts of the Flying Tigers’ feats are superb and his interpretations of their military significance are succinct and satisfying.
– The Washington Post
Praise for the author’s Into the Fire: Ploesti: The Most Fateful Mission of World War II
A vivid chronicle [and] a fresh account of a particularly bloody mission.
– The Wall Street Journal
Students of military history, World War II, and Patton will find the book useful. Readers of all backgrounds will find the book a pleasure to read. The reader who finishes this book will learn more about Patton, World War II, and an obscure piece of its history.
– Military Review
Praise for the author’s Into the Fire: Ploesti: The Most Fateful Mission of World War II
Schultz combines a historian’s meticulous research and a novelist’s hypnotic prose to produce this memorable popular history.
– Publishers Weekly
Praise for the author’s Into the Fire: Ploesti: The Most Fateful Mission of World War II
Shimmers with historical parallels and modern resonances.
– Washington Times
Praise for the author's The Maverick War: Chennault and the Flying Tigers
Highly readable.
– Publishers Weekly
Praise for the author's The Maverick War: Chennault and the Flying Tigers
A rousing account, clearing the air of myth-makers’ hyperbole without tarnishing the glory earned by these renegade warriors.
– Kirkus Reviews
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