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PATTON**** ORDEAL TRIUMPH and by LADISLAS FARAGO **** ORDEAL and TRIUMPH WESTHOLME PUBLISHING • Yardley Copyright © 1964 by Ladislas Farago All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Published by Westholme Publishing, LLC 904 Edgewood Road Yardley, Pennsylvania 19067 Visit our Web site: www.westholmepublishing.com ISBN: 978-1-59416-512-2 This book is also available in paperback. Produced in the United States of America. For fohn TABLE OF CONTENTS BOOK ONE: THE ORDEAL 1. "Robert Is Coming" 3 2. Illiterate Prodigy 41 3. Gentleman Soldier 55 4. Ancient Man in Modem Armor 64 5. "Jine the Cavalry" 85 6. In the Limbo of Peace 104 7. A Dark Decisive Crisis 112 8. In the Shadow of Marshall 126 9. Rehearsals for War 135 10. The Call 169 11. "Torch" 185 12. Proconsul in Morocco 198 13. Detour to Tunisia 234 14. The Shadow of Montgomery 263 15. Born at Sea, Baptized in Blood 282 16. The Slapping Incidents 318 17. Conqueror in the Doghouse 341 BOOK TWO: THE TRIUMPH 18. Underdog of Overlord 371 19. In the London Fog 386 20. Master of Peover Hall 397 21. Dismal Days 407 22. Return to Normandy 424 23. The Shadow of Bradley 439 24. The Breakout 451 25. A Night in August and the Morning After 465 26. Brittany 478 27. The Chains of Command 501 28. The Falaise Mystery 514 29. Victories and Woes 543 30. "The Sure Thing" 559 31. Bone Dry 582 32. The Shadow of Eisenhower 595 33. Period of Confusion 620 34. A Matter of Opportunity 636 35. Metz and Mud 651 36. The Road to the Bulge 658 37. Bastogne 693 38. "One More Great Campaign" 723 39. To The Rhine 740 40. Yonder Are the Russians 766 41. A Time of War, and a Time of Peace 789 . . . And a Time to Die 823 MAPS 833 NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND REFERENCES 857 INDEX 875 **** Book One THE ORDEAL
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