DZ Season 064 Part 36. End the War in 44 – Only Human – Patton 7 – Patton Hated Being on the Defensive at All.
The reality is that Patton accepted the inevitability of death in combat but strove mightily to save the lives of his men.
so wrote Carlo d’Este in his biography of Patton – A Genius for War.
Patton’s preferred nickname for himself, “Blood and Guts”, would seem to bely this assessment. Carlo d’Este had this to say about Patton’s reputation:
Eisenhower was well aware that Patton's detractors were snidely twisting his vainglorious nickname by referring to him as "Our Blood, his Guts," and apparently privately agreed with them to some extent. "Ike feels Patton is motivated by selfishness," wrote…
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