Patton's Photographs: War as He Saw It
by Kevin M. Hymel
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Author: Kevin M. HymelEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-30
ISBN: 1574888722
Number of pages: 158
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
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Book Review: Not the best quality pictures, But The Most Interesting
Summary: 5 Stars
There are several famous photographs of Patton with his camera around his neck. It never occurred to me that if he carried the camera he probably used it, and if he used it, the pictures would be interesting to see. It apparently never occurred to anyone else until Mr. Hymel found some references to Patton's Photo Albums in the Library of Congress.
The result is this book. Patton was not the best photographer ever. The pictures taken by the professionals of the U.S. Army Signal Corps of Patton (a few are included in this book) are better. But what Patton's pictures show is not the great technical quality of the pictures, it is the content that interested Patton.
Patton was the consumate general. He was concerned with the equipment of the enemy - and here are pictures of German tanks. He was concerned with things like how his army moved - and here are pictures of his soldiers building bridges.
I have seen the George C. Scott movie of course. This book follows the same general path. What's interesting is to see it as Patton saw it himself. This is a fascinating book that belongs in any World War II book collection.
Summary of Patton's Photographs: War as He Saw It
While researching an article on Gen. George S. Patton, Kevin M. Hymel made an astonishing discovery. Browsing the Library of Congress's Patton index, he found lists of photo albums. Opening one, he found photos Patton himself took during World War II, a gold mine of historical photographs of which even Blumenson, Patton's official biographer, was unaware.Patton photographed everything that interested him and produced tableaux of the battlefields of North Africa, Sicily, and continental Europe. For Patton, history was everything, and his Leica camera-standard issue for reporters and historians in the U.S. Army-ensured he could provide historians an accurate depiction of events, free from interpretation. His photographs depict the victorious face of war, with GIs on the move, military bridges under construction, and tanks slicing through the countryside. They show defeat as well-smashed German tanks, prisoners of war, and bodies strewn across the landscape. Moreover, they provide a record of where Patton fought, showcasing historic sights and the different terrain from North Africa to Europe.
Now, for the first time, many of Patton's personal photographs are presented in one book for the reader to observe history as Patton saw it. Hymel provides background information and captions for the photographs and occasionally uses Patton's own words to describe the sights. Patton claimed his hobby once saved his life. Stopping to take a photograph in Italy, he witnessed a salvo of German shells exploding on the roadway up ahead, where he likely would have been had he not stopped. With Patton's Photographs, readers can now view that life during the war through the eye of one of America's greatest commanders.
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