Robert Patton, grandson of the legendary WWII General George S. Patton will present his new nonfiction book, Hell Before Breakfast: America's First War Correspondents Making History and Headlines, from the Battlefields of the Civil War to the Far Reaches of the Ottoman Empire (May 2014), tomorrow, Tuesday, April 29th.
More about the events: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/patton_Robert14.html
Booklist said: “A fascinating cast of characters…Patton details major conflagrations and social and technological changes amid the gore of war and the prose of reporters of another era.”
More about the book: http://www.randomhouse.com/book/128217/hell-before-breakfast-by-robert-h-patton#praise
Monday, April 28, 2014
Robert Patton Tuesday, Grandson of General George Patton
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