Patton's Drive tells the story of how a young man born to
war - who believed himself the literal incarnation of all
great warriors past - became a modern American general:
in terms of enemy killed or captured, territory taken,
and people liberated, the greatest field commander of
World War II. It tells the story of Patton before the war
that fully revealed his destiny, the youthful captain who
pursued the guerrillas of Pancho Villa deep into Mexico
and the still-young colonel who led America's first corps
of tanks against the Germans in France during World War
I. It details as well the terrible price a born warrior
pays in time of peace, the two decades that separated the
two world wars, an interval most inhabitants of the
planet regarded as both blissful and all too brief, but
that for Patton was a purgatory of physical and emotional
torment, until his next Great War (WWII), which is also
covered in depth.
