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Every major war of the 20th Century has produced heroes of the hour - men who rose above the mediocrity to lead their fellow soldiers to victory, or sometimes defeat.
In Clash of Warriors, we examine the backgrounds and personalities of the finest commanders of that century. Each episode takes two of the world's greatest combatants as they face their ultimate tests against each other.


Narrator : Harry Chase
Script Writer & Historical Advisor : Ian Passingham
Editorial Director : Charles Messenger
Producer / Director : Jonathan Martin
Executive Producer : Philip Nugus

Produced by Nugus/Martin Productions Ltd for The History Channel (2000)

Episode 10 : Patton vs von Kluge - Breakout from Normandy
For weeks after the D-Day Iandings, AIlied troops were pinned down in the dense Normandy 'bocage', the small fields, narrow lanes, and high hedgerows where German anti-tank ambushes and snipers inflicted mounting casualties. Their resistance would only be broken by a spectacular breakout action, and this vital task was entrusted to the flamboyant, hard-driving George Patton. Once his armoured units had been unleashed on the Allied right wing, and were swinging round behind the German defences there was little that Guenther Hans von Kluge's battle-weary troops could do to hold the line.