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...proposing in the poetic and impromptu manner ascribed to have by Province, Patton carefully thought out the place and circumstances for his proposal. The actual circumstances of Patton's marriage proposal are available to the general public, and indeed. Province claims to have consulted The Patton Papers by Martin Blumenson; one would expect a telling of the tale to be closer to Patton's own description than it is, or at least to make a gesture at cleaning up the inconsistency...
...MARTIN BLUMENSON 889 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...Martin Blumenson, who served in Patton's Third Army Headquarters during World War II and later as a scholar in the Army's Office of Chief of Military History, has done a superb job of editing Patton's diaries, letters, memos and speeches. He has also skillfully stitched them together with explanatory narrative. The first volume, published in 1972, covered Patton's life from 1885 to 1940 -his service under Pershing in Mexico and France, his long wait between wars, his crusading in behalf of armored warfare. The present volume begins in 1940 and ends with...
...achieved his "mission," something immortal. In that, he was somewhat disappointed. Patton was a swashbuckling and inventive tactician. Yet his indiscretions-the slapping incident on Sicily, his undiplomatic opinions-persuaded Dwight Eisenhower and George Marshall that however effective Patton was as a field officer, he was potentially unstable. Blumenson speculates that a subdural hematoma (a blood clot in the brain) suffered during a polo match may have caused his occasionally unbalanced behavior...
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