"The Germans considered him our best general."

That could be true. They taught him a few lessons in North Africa. The Germans, infantry and armour, rarely stopped on their objectives (as the British, Americans and Canadians) if there was room to exploit: start-line to objective, stop and prepare for the next set-piece battle. Patton wasn't as predictable.

As for his character, as so many leaders, often impenetrable, contradictory. From my reading of the man, I admired his courage but would have found his character insufferable. As a warrior he had few peers. In the pantheon of American Second World War greats, he wasn't near Eisenhower and Marshall and a dozen others.

Last edited by King Brown; 06/17/08 09:01 AM.