Table of Contents
Timeline ix
Prologue 1
Part I Blood
Chapter 1 Ghosts of the Confederacy 7
Chapter 2 Benjamin Davis Wilson 19
Chapter 3 Papa 25
Chapter 4 Dearest Bea 41
Part II Guts
Chapter 5 Pancho Villa 67
Chapter 6 World War I 81
Chapter 7 Tanks 87
Chapter 8 Teaching Courage 103
Chapter 9 Task Force Baum 119
Chapter 10 Saving the Lipizzaners 133
Part III Prayer
Chapter 11 Growing Up 149
Chapter 12 God of Battles 155
Chapter 13 Saving a Soul 179
Chapter 14 Patton's Prayer 203
Chapter 15 The Last Enemy 221
Appendices
Appendix 1 Patton's Obituary 229
Appendix 2 Patton's Prayer for Courage 231
Appendix 3 Patton's Letter to Headquarters, Third United States Army 233
Acknowledgments 235
Notes 237
Index 251