jonathan jordan. [applause] >> thanks a lot. thank you very much, jeremy, for that kind introduction. thanks to the national world war two museum for allowing me to come out for a few minutes and share some more stories about three of america's most impressive soldiers. the title of the book is "brothers, rivals, victors". and that title, those the words are about the only part of the book that were not revised, cut out, stop, taken out, put back in, sliced, diced, and excise to set up a pen to paper back in 2006. the reason that the title alone survived five years of editorial bloodletting is because those the words, brothers, rivals, victors, to me it sums up a partnership of three american generals who produced one of the most extraordinary results in our nation's history. so with that, i would like to spend a few minutes sharing some stories about the brotherhood, the rivalry, and ultimately the victory in western europe that was eisenhower, bradley, and patton. now, the brotherhood began almost a century ago this summer in

tonight's speaker, jonathan jordan is author of loans star navy, texas league original the fight for the gulf of mexico and shaping of the american west. some of you may have read many or all of his writings on the second world war personalities, battles and weapons such as world war ii magazine, are injured general, military history, and so on. he is a contributing author to the armchair reader, world war ii and the amazing book of world history. he is the editor of the library of texas edition to the people of texas. mr. dorgan is the son of an air force pilot and vietnam veteran who grew up on military bases throughout the country, of ohio and new jersey and the philippine islands. one would think with all of his writings is full time job is as a historian but mr. jordan is a practicing attorney out of that land the, georgia. he is at the national world war ii museum. please give a warm welcome to the author of "brothers, rivals, victors," eisenhower, patton, bradley and the allied victory in europe. mr. jordan. >> thanks very much for that kind introduction. and thanks to the nat

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