{"product_id":"i-marched-with-patton-a-firsthand-account-of-world-war-ii-alongside-one-of-the-u-s-armys-greatest-generals-a-gritty-combat-memoir-of-the-battle-of-the-bulge-and-dachau","title":"I Marched with Patton: A Firsthand Account of World War II Alongside One of the U.S. Army's Greatest Generals – A Gritty Combat Memoir of the Battle of the Bulge and Dachau","description":"\"Poignant . . . Well worth the read.\" —Wall Street Journal\nIn December 1944,\nFrank Sisson deployed to Europe as part of General George S. Patton’s famed\nThird Army. Over the next six months, as the war in Europe raged, Sisson would\nparticipate in many of World War II’s most consequential events, from the\nBattle of the Bulge to the liberation of Dachau. Now 95 years old, Frank shares\nhis remarkable story of life under General Patton for the first time.\nFrank Sisson grew up in rural\nOklahoma during the Great Depression. His father died when Frank was young, and\nso in 1944, at age eighteen, Frank, like so many other young men across\nAmerica, enlisted in the Army and was deployed to France. At a traffic\nintersection one day, Frank caught his first glimpse of the man who would\ncontrol the next six months of Frank’s deployment, and whose lessons, and\nspirit, would shape the rest of Frank’s life. General Patton could be erratic\nand short-tempered—but he was also a brilliant military tactician and cared\ndeeply for the men who served under him, a credo that gave Frank and his fellow\nsoldiers solace as they faced death every day. In this gritty, intimate\naccount, Frank reveals what life on the ground was really like in the closing\ndays of World War II.\nAfter the war, Frank\ncontinued to serve in the army as a military police inspector in Berlin. When he\nfinally returned home, he attended college and built a career in business. Like\nmany members of the Greatest Generation, he was often reluctant to share his\nstories of the war, in all their glory, and terror. He was content to live and\nwork in the nation he had fought to protect, an embodiment of the American\nDream.\n\nPatton, on the other hand,\nwould not live to see the postwar world he helped create. In December 1945,\nless than a year after the conclusion of the war, he tragically died following\na car accident. Now, seventy-five years later, Frank Sisson’s remarkable\nreminiscences provide a fresh, unique look at Patton’s leadership, the final days\nof World War II and its direct aftermath, and the experience of combat on the\nfront lines.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0063019477\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0063019477.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Sisson, Frank|Wise, Robert L.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43310528692285,"sku":"BVV.0063019477.VG","price":6.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0063019477-0.jpg?v=1782855614","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/i-marched-with-patton-a-firsthand-account-of-world-war-ii-alongside-one-of-the-u-s-armys-greatest-generals-a-gritty-combat-memoir-of-the-battle-of-the-bulge-and-dachau","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}