Word: pattons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chiefly, this is the story of how spare, fox-faced Martinet Montgomery chased Desert Fox Rommel's famed Afrika Korps 1,850 miles, from the gates of Alexandria into Tunisia. In his writing, as in battle, Monty has neither Eisenhower's scope nor Patton's dash and saltiness. Readers who want the smell and smoke of battle will not get it here. But El Alamein should appeal to chess players. Every move of every battle is explained with the logic, the patience and the bland assurance of an instructor demonstrating a foolproof system. Writes Monty: "I have...
...military man, unlike Keitel, Jodl, etc. If this be the case, the treatment given and in store for him appears to lack justice. All that is necessary to illustrate this point is enough imagination to contemplate a defeat for this country at some time, whereupon the then Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton and Hodges would promptly find themselves "war criminals...
...have just sent your article, "Patton Talking," to a friend in Uppsala, Sweden, asking him to show it to the clergy there . . . The sacrilegious story . . . was pure fiction...
BEATRICE AYER PATTON South Hamilton, Mass...
...TIME intended no disrespect to General Patton. It assumes that the Swedish Life Guard Grenadiers' regimental journal, from which it quoted, also intended no hurt to the memory of a great soldier. General Patton's own book, War As I Knew It, edited by Mrs. Patton, quotes him as saying, when the weather cleared after he had ordered Chaplain O'Neill to pray: "God damn! Look at the weather. That O'Neill sure did some potent praying...