Patton's Unsung Armor of the Ardennes: The Tenth Armored Division's Secret Dash to Bastogne
Pulitzer Prize winner Eugene Patterson is the former editor of the Atlanta Constitution and managing editor of the Washington Post. For the seventeen years before he retired, he served as editor, chairman, and CEO of the St. Petersburg Times. He won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing at the Atlanta Constitution for his columns and editorials supporting civil rights for black Americans. He won the Silver Star and the Bronze Star with oak-leaf cluster during World War II combat in Europe with the Tenth Armored Division of Patton's Third Army. He holds honorary degrees from fifteen institutions including Harvard, Duke, Emory, and Indiana universities.