DZ Season 064 Part 30. End the War in 44 – Only Human – Patton 1 – Salute to a Rebel.
Patton. I stand on shaky ground speaking about this American legend if I’m going to say anything negative about him. Luckily for me all of the men who served in his Third Army are now dead so I’m unlikely to get punched in the face for what I am going to say over the next few parts of this series about the man.
Carlo d’Este, in his biography of Patton, A Genius for War thought that this remark by the Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte, captured the spirit of Patton:
If the art of war consisted in not taking risks glory would be at the mercy of very mediocre talent.
Patton was certainly…
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