You have to post your honest opinion of it whether it is a good or bad opinion. They want to know what YOU think. I have done that today with Patton.
Patton (The Generals) Tenacity in Action
By Agostino von Hassell
The book I got was about General Patton. I actually admire this man in history. I know that sounds crazy, he is dead. But, He is one of my all-time favorite Generals. They have made a number of movies about him some of them showing his hard ass side more than his other side, his sensitive side and the journals he kept & letters her wrote to his wife, the side that other Generals deemed worthy of Patton that wasn't as worthy as they should be.
I actually enjoyed this book. It took me a few days to read it and I started with the author's preface because it gave a general history of Patton and who he actually is and why the author decided to write this book. If you never started reading the book from the author's page , Note from the Editor, Introduction, etc ; I seriously recommend you do. Sometimes you will get more information and insight as to why the author wrote what they did, why certain things were left out, why certain things were put in, etc. I once got upset with a book for leaving out some vital information that I knew about Vietnam. What I didn't do was read the beginning to see that the author was trying to go for the more humane side of the issue then the political side of it. After I read this , I re-read that book to discover I missed some things, some vital pieces of information; the actual insight. Sometimes you want to find yourself in the head of another human being to actually know what is going on. This book portrayed Patton that way.
The reason why it took me a couple days to actually read it was not because the book was hard to read it was because I just started another semester of college so life has been "interesting". This book was actually a very easy read. It gave a lot of wonderful insight to the general that you won't see with other books about him (or movies). It showed that the hard ass he was on the outside wasn't the person he really was when he was just an ordinary human being. He had his frail side , his sensitive side, the family struggles. He came from a family of military man and had to prove himself (or felt like he had to prove himself). They left out a few details to the insight of the war and I found myself a little lost. I think they did this as I said for the reason they were more trying to show the side of General Patton that not many people got to see. Just like the book on Vietnam I had read in the past where I was a little upset about why they left out certain details but after I read the author's details I figured it out. This Introduction, however, left out a little bit of the war for that part too. In this book I don't feel it was really necessary to add more to it and that little piece being missing wasn't that big a deal.
If you like history at all , writing a report for school, or just oddily curious about the people behind the people then this book is for you. It will give you great insight into the General and why he was the person he was. If you read the introduction first as I suggest you will understand also the author's point of view of why he wrote it in this way. This man really truly made a difference in the life of a lot of people and to truly understand this you have to open up this book.
**My thanks to Thomas Nelson for providing me with a complimentary copy of this book for review. This book is my opinion . I was given this book by Booksneeze to review in exchange to have free books. They did not pay me to read this book nor give a good opinion. I gave my honest opinion to this book .
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