Patton And Rommel

Just finished reading "Patton And Rommel, Men of War in the Twentieth Century", written by Dennis Showalter.
Like many books from the History Book Club, this was informative while maintaining a lack of entertainment value. The book did illustrate each soldier's life starting from childhood culminating with their deaths about the end of WWII.
Patton was born into money, and by heritage proudly connected to the CSA. An interesting fact was that earlier in their careers, Patton assisted Eisenhower with his notes and study guides, helping him through special schools such as the Army War College.
Rommel was from a more pedestrian background, entering the military as a career choice. His ascent starting during WWI, with innovative leadership in the mountains of northern Italy. The general chose suicide over public dishonor when tacitly connected to a failed assassination attempt on Hitler.

To repeat, the writing was factual.
To add the editing was poor, many errors are present, even by my poorly learned skills.
On a scale of 1-10, "Patton And Rommel" gets a 3.