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Title: Patton's Bulldog: The Life and Service of General Walton H. Walker by Wilson Allen Heefner, Martin Blumenson ISBN: 1-57249-283-X Publisher: White Mane Publishing Co. Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: 'Worth Reading' but the definitive bio remains to be written
Comment: I am glad I read this book, and I recommend it to those who want to know more about George Patton's subordinates. It contains some interesting details, including many concerned with Walker's service in a World War I machine gun company. Unfortunately, it also has major deficiencies. The style is very ordinary, and dry at times. More importantly, the author fails to put Walker's accomplishments into any kind of broader historical perspective. (As a very minor historian, perhaps it was modesty on Heefner's part that led him to refrain, wisely, from even attempting this.) The quote by Alexander Haig on the dust jacket is particularly unhelpful and misleading, since Haig's partisan jab about preparedness doesn't belong on a book that makes no attempt to examine whether the funds available to Harry Truman in 1950 were really misallocated. Was money spent in Europe that should've been spent training Walker's unit in Japan, in anticipation of the North Korean attack? This book is about a brave and dedicated individual, not such broad questions of policy.
There are also some unanswered questions that are more relevant to General Walker, the soldier: Was he used as a scapegoat for American difficulties in Korea? How did the timing of his death affect how he was judged by his contemporaries? Wilson Allen Heefner has provided some raw material that will help to answer such questions, but he has also convinced me that General Walker deserves a better biography.
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Title: Visions from a Foxhole : A Rifleman in Patton's Ghost Corps by WILLIAM FOLEY ISBN: 0891418121 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Will to Win: The Life of General James A. Van Fleet by Paul F. Braim ISBN: 1557502196 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $42.50 |
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Title: Terrible Terry Allen : Combat General of World War II - The Life of an American Soldier by Gerald Astor ISBN: 0891417605 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Major General Maurice Rose: World War II's Greatest Forgotten Commander by Steven L. Ossad, Don R. Marsh, Martin Blumenson ISBN: 0878333088 Publisher: Taylor Pub Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: All the Way to Berlin : A Paratrooper at War in Europe by JAMES MEGELLAS ISBN: 0891417842 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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