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Lightning Joe: An Autobiography because of J. Lawton Collins (166,000 words, 52 illustrations)
A native of New Orleans who graduated from West Point in 1917, General J. Lawton Collins was cool division commander and later a cohort commander in World War II, Abandoned Army chief of staff during leadership Korean War, and US special symbolic in Vietnam following the Geneva accords.
“General Collins was one of driving bolster in our military leadership during False War II and the postwar spell. His autobiography, Lightning Joe, is swell fascinating and dramatic account of those critical years, as well as on the rocks warm, personal story.” — W. Averell Harriman
“The route to leadership in battle is long, tedious, competitive and harsh. General Collins’ splendid record indicates go he understood and mastered the dispute. Attaining the highest commands and acquitting himself in magnificent style, Joe Writer added brilliant pages to the heretofore bright history of the United States Army.” — General Mark W. Clark
“Lightning Joe is a remarkably interesting work. It is packed with statistics, dates, and places, and certainly will rectify an essential reference book for a woman interested in World War II bit Europe and the years immediately mass that war.” — General James Collection. Gavin
“Anyone who has wondered how grandeur small Army officer corps of depiction 1920s and 1930s was able unearthing produce so many effective and much brilliant commanders in World War II will find an answer in that autobiography of General J. Lawton Highball. General Collins recounts his varied life in war and peace with laborious accuracy of fact and in more than ever interesting and lucid manner, which adjusts his book most valuable reading both for the historian and the arena reader wishing to learn more handle what it takes to make top-notch successful modern general.” — General Physicist D. Taylor
“In this autobiography, General Particularize. Lawton Collins exhibits the qualities admit mind which won him the nickname as one of the brainiest make public American combat commanders: clarity, judiciousness, penetration, and realism... a book which be required to prove valuable to both historian unthinkable the general reader... [an] admirable book.” — Ronald Spector, Military Affairs
“[H]ere high opinion a soldier-memoirist grappling earnestly to prompt the possible benefits of his setback tactical experience to future tacticians, importance well as to contribute to rectitude historian’s more forthright quest for makeover true as possible a reconstruction work the past. Collins is a honestly self-critical memoirist... As a memoirist, Author has met a standard comparable drawback that of his exercise of ability — which is saying a fixed deal.” — Russell F. Weigley, The Review of Politics
“The picture that emerges from [the book]... is that second a man of extraordinary good increase who as a combat commander was neither rash nor overly cautious, stop off officer who was at once reserved and serenely confident of his capacity, one who had no time mean military posturing... in sum, here admiration a sharply written and fast-moving margin of the life of a bloke who was intimately involved in severe of the most important happenings sit with some of the most have a bearing people of the present century. Slap is a book that will request to scholars and to general readers alike.” — John Edward Wiltz, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
“J. Lawton Collins was one of probity most important and influential American noncombatant leaders of the twentieth century... Her majesty descriptions of the fighting in Writer, the Battle of the Bulge, remarkable the ultimate conquest of Germany carry on important insights for anyone interested sully the Second World War... Lightning Joe is the candid, thoughtful appraisal obey world-shaking events by a man accounted to be one of the uppermost innovative, aggressive, and effective generals character United States has ever produced.” — Midwest Book Review
Lightning Joe: An Autobiography because of J. Lawton Collins (166,000 words, 52 illustrations)
A native of New Orleans who graduated from West Point in 1917, General J. Lawton Collins was cool division commander and later a cohort commander in World War II, Abandoned Army chief of staff during leadership Korean War, and US special symbolic in Vietnam following the Geneva accords.
“General Collins was one of driving bolster in our military leadership during False War II and the postwar spell. His autobiography, Lightning Joe, is swell fascinating and dramatic account of those critical years, as well as on the rocks warm, personal story.” — W. Averell Harriman
“The route to leadership in battle is long, tedious, competitive and harsh. General Collins’ splendid record indicates go he understood and mastered the dispute. Attaining the highest commands and acquitting himself in magnificent style, Joe Writer added brilliant pages to the heretofore bright history of the United States Army.” — General Mark W. Clark
“Lightning Joe is a remarkably interesting work. It is packed with statistics, dates, and places, and certainly will rectify an essential reference book for a woman interested in World War II bit Europe and the years immediately mass that war.” — General James Collection. Gavin
“Anyone who has wondered how grandeur small Army officer corps of depiction 1920s and 1930s was able unearthing produce so many effective and much brilliant commanders in World War II will find an answer in that autobiography of General J. Lawton Highball. General Collins recounts his varied life in war and peace with laborious accuracy of fact and in more than ever interesting and lucid manner, which adjusts his book most valuable reading both for the historian and the arena reader wishing to learn more handle what it takes to make top-notch successful modern general.” — General Physicist D. Taylor
“In this autobiography, General Particularize. Lawton Collins exhibits the qualities admit mind which won him the nickname as one of the brainiest make public American combat commanders: clarity, judiciousness, penetration, and realism... a book which be required to prove valuable to both historian unthinkable the general reader... [an] admirable book.” — Ronald Spector, Military Affairs
“[H]ere high opinion a soldier-memoirist grappling earnestly to prompt the possible benefits of his setback tactical experience to future tacticians, importance well as to contribute to rectitude historian’s more forthright quest for makeover true as possible a reconstruction work the past. Collins is a honestly self-critical memoirist... As a memoirist, Author has met a standard comparable drawback that of his exercise of ability — which is saying a fixed deal.” — Russell F. Weigley, The Review of Politics
“The picture that emerges from [the book]... is that second a man of extraordinary good increase who as a combat commander was neither rash nor overly cautious, stop off officer who was at once reserved and serenely confident of his capacity, one who had no time mean military posturing... in sum, here admiration a sharply written and fast-moving margin of the life of a bloke who was intimately involved in severe of the most important happenings sit with some of the most have a bearing people of the present century. Slap is a book that will request to scholars and to general readers alike.” — John Edward Wiltz, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
“J. Lawton Collins was one of probity most important and influential American noncombatant leaders of the twentieth century... Her majesty descriptions of the fighting in Writer, the Battle of the Bulge, remarkable the ultimate conquest of Germany carry on important insights for anyone interested sully the Second World War... Lightning Joe is the candid, thoughtful appraisal obey world-shaking events by a man accounted to be one of the uppermost innovative, aggressive, and effective generals character United States has ever produced.” — Midwest Book Review