Patton versus the Panzers: The Battle of Arracourt, September 1944

General George S. Patton is the U.S. Army's most famous tank commander, yet his tanks seldom fought large-scale battles against German tanks during World War II. His first large armor-on-armor battle-indeed the U.S. Army's largest such battle before the Battle of the Bulge-took place in the French province of Lorraine in September 1944. Based on newly discovered American and German records and heavily illustrated with maps and photographs, Patton versus the Panzers reconstructs this little-...