Patton in Mexico: Lieutenant George S. Patton, the Hunt for Pancho Villa, and the Making of a General
()
About this ebook
Had Lieutenant George S. Patton not served on the southern border during the Mexican Expedition of 1916, there might never have been a General George S. Patton who took the world by storm as a bold and daring commander during World War II.
Relying on Patton’s detailed personal journals of his eight months in Mexico, Michael Lee Lanning describes the young officer’s exploits during the hunt for Pancho Villa. As an aide to General John Pershing, Patton learned leadership and logistics from the man who would soon command American forces in World War I. Begging for a field command, he received it—and led the first motorized attack in U.S. military history and may or may not have killed two of Villa’s lieutenants. The press ate it up, and Patton learned not only how much he loved attention, but how to promote himself.
In Mexico are the roots of Patton the World War II general, and Lanning tells the story deftly, focusing on Patton the man as well Patton the commander, and always casting an eye forward to Patton’s future career. This is how Patton became Patton.
Read more from Michael Lee Lanning
Stackpole Military History Series The Blister Club: The Extraordinary Story of the Downed American Airmen Who Escaped to Safety in World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTony Buzbee - Defining Moments Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDouble T - Double Cross - Double Take: The Firing of Coach Mike Leach by Texas Tech University Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson: The Baseball Legend's Battle for Civil Rights during World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSenseless Secrets: The Failures of U.S. Military Intelligence from the Revolution to Afghanistan Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Patton in Mexico
Related ebooks
Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5First for the Union: Life and Death in a Civil War Army Corps from Antietam to Gettysburg Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMarching for Union: A Civil War Soldier's Walk across the Reconstruction South Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGeneral George S. Patton, Jr.: Man under Mars Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5From Second Bull Run to Gettysburg: The Civil War in the East, 1862-63 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsD-Day General: How Dutch Cota Saved Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the Official Records Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGod Walks The Dark Hills: Book I & II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLincoln in Lists Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBurnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Best Short Stories of 1918 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLife & Other Passing Moments Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All for the Union: The Saga of One Northern Family Fighting the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRemembering Pittsburgh: An "Eyewitness" History of the Steel City Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Riders in the Storm: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Black Cavalry Regiment in the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLincoln's Choice: The Repeating Rifle which Cut Short the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTroopers With Custer: Historic Incidents Of The Battle Of The Little Big Horn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5First to Fight: An American Volunteer in the French Foreign Legion and the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCombat: European Theatre, World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Second Macabre MEGAPACK®: 20 Classic Dark Fantasies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Recollections of a Drummer-Boy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDaughter of the Amazon: The Golden Amazon Saga, Book Five Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bloody Bucket Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPersonal Memoirs of John H. Brinton, Major and Surgeon U.S.V., 1861-1865 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Siege of Petersburg: The Battles for the Weldon Railroad, August 1864 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Napus: The Great Plague of the Year 2227 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Wars & Military For You
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mein Kampf: The Original, Accurate, and Complete English Translation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wager Disaster: Mayem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When I Come Home Again: 'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Patton in Mexico
0 ratings0 reviews