{"product_id":"9780063028609","title":"I Marched with Patton: A Firsthand Account of World War II Alongside One of the U.S. Army's Greatest Generals","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eSisson, Frank; Wise, Robert L.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWilliam Morrow Large Print\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10\/20\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Poignant . . . Well worth the read.\" —\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn December 1944,\u003cbr\u003eFrank Sisson deployed to Europe as part of General George S. Patton’s famed\u003cbr\u003eThird Army. Over the next six months, as the war in Europe raged, Sisson would\u003cbr\u003eparticipate in many of World War II’s most consequential events, from the\u003cbr\u003eBattle of the Bulge to the liberation of Dachau. Now 95 years old, Frank shares\u003cbr\u003ehis remarkable story of life under General Patton for the first time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank Sisson grew up in rural\u003cbr\u003eOklahoma during the Great Depression. His father died when Frank was young, and\u003cbr\u003eso in 1944, at age eighteen, Frank, like so many other young men across\u003cbr\u003eAmerica, enlisted in the Army and was deployed to France. At a traffic\u003cbr\u003eintersection one day, Frank caught his first glimpse of the man who would\u003cbr\u003econtrol the next six months of Frank’s deployment, and whose lessons, and\u003cbr\u003espirit, would shape the rest of Frank’s life. General Patton could be erratic\u003cbr\u003eand short-tempered—but he was also a brilliant military tactician and cared\u003cbr\u003edeeply for the men who served under him, a credo that gave Frank and his fellow\u003cbr\u003esoldiers solace as they faced death every day. In this gritty, intimate\u003cbr\u003eaccount, Frank reveals what life on the ground was really like in the closing\u003cbr\u003edays of World War II. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the war, Frank\u003cbr\u003econtinued to serve in the army as a military police inspector in Berlin. When he\u003cbr\u003efinally returned home, he attended college and built a career in business. Like\u003cbr\u003emany members of the Greatest Generation, he was often reluctant to share his\u003cbr\u003estories of the war, in all their glory, and terror. He was content to live and\u003cbr\u003ework in the nation he had fought to protect, an embodiment of the American\u003cbr\u003eDream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatton, on the other hand,\u003cbr\u003ewould not live to see the postwar world he helped create. In December 1945,\u003cbr\u003eless than a year after the conclusion of the war, he tragically died following\u003cbr\u003ea car accident. Now, seventy-five years later, Frank Sisson’s remarkable\u003cbr\u003ereminiscences provide a fresh, unique look at Patton’s leadership, the final days\u003cbr\u003eof World War II and its direct aftermath, and the experience of combat on the\u003cbr\u003efront lines.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Large Print","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46810497810687,"sku":"9780063028609","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780063028609_s600x595.jpg?v=1780332264","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780063028609","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}