Sarantakes recounts how filmmakers had to overcome the reluctance of Patton’s family, copyright issues with biographers, competing efforts for a biopic, and Department of Defense red tape. He chronicles the long search for a leading...

Based heavily on primary sources, including official unit after-action reports and diaries, personal memoirs, and veteran interviews conducted by the author, this chronology of the United States Army Fourth Armored Division presents its history day by...