Reviews for Patton's Peers: The Forgotten Allied Field Army Commanders of the Western Front, 1944-45

The average rating for Patton's Peers: The Forgotten Allied Field Army Commanders of the Western Front, 1944-45 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-13 00:00:00 Joseph Simonetti More a multi-threaded synopsis of the Northwest Europe campaign than an analysis of army command that the introduction sort of promises. This would have worked better with either a stronger focus on the biographies of the individual commanders or as an opportunity to evaluate the evolution of army command throughout the war. Strangely, given English's background, the section on Crerar was the weakest. It may be that the recent surge of scholarship on the Canadian role in World War Two has made the issues more familiar to me, but I don't feel I learned anything in that section. Most of the other sections provided some level of new information, if not what I hoped for.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-02-20 00:00:00 Stacey Johnson Most everyone has heard of General Patton, but did you know how instrumental General Crerar (Canada), General Dempsey (England), General Hodges (USA), General Simpson (USA), General Patch (USA), and General de Lattre (France) were in the victory over Germany in Europe? VE Day would not have occurred without their superior leadership.