Patton’’s Last Gamble: The Disastrous Raid on POW Camp Hammelburg in World War II

Patton’s Last Gamble vividly recounts Gen. George Patton’s ill-fated mission to liberate a German POW camp where his son-in-law and other Americans were held. It was a mission Gen. Omar Bradley later said ＂began as a wild goose chase and ended in tragedy.＂

Duane Schultz is a graduate of Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, and American University. He is the author of Crossing the Rapido: A Tragedy of World War II and Into the Fire: Ploesti, the Most Fateful Mission of World War II, among other military history titles. He has written for such magazines as World War II, World War II History, and Military History Quarterly.