Omar Bradley

✍ Scribed by Jim DeFelice

• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 460 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The First In-Depth Biography of America's Last Five-Star General

He was known as "the G.I. General"-- humble, self-effacing, hard-working, reflecting the small-town virtues of the America whose uniform he wore. But those very virtues have led historians to neglect General Omar Bradley--until now. Bestselling author Jim DeFelice, in this, the first-ever in-depth biography of America's last five-star general, tells Bradley's full story, and argues that the neglected G.I. General did more than any other to defeat Hitler in World War II.

While General George S. Patton has garnered much of the glory, General Dwight David Eisenhower has claimed much of the world's respect, and British General Bernard Montgomery has kept the Union Jack flying, as DeFelice proves, it was the unassuming Bradley who actually developed the strategy and the tactics that won the war in Europe. Meticulously researched, using previously untapped documents...