Great quote on Patton

[Rico]

I liked this...

Marlene Dietrich, after meeting Patton while she was on a tour entertaining Allied troops in Sicily, described him as "a tank too big for the village square."

(from Rick Atkinson's The Day of Battle, The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944)

 

[Breakthrough]

I just finished that book..... Good read, but I though 'Army at Dawn' was superior...

I wonder what she said about Gavin?????

 

[Rico]

Yes, I agree... "Army at Dawn" was much better.

Gavin??... lol... she was stumm on that one. :tape:

 

[Hedgehog]

Wish you had put this on yesterday Gentlemen about the book,I went and bought 4 books on a gift voucher yesterday that sound's as if that might just have been the one to buy....If only thing's would run that easy Hey....

 

[Breakthrough]

Wish you had put this on yesterday Gentlemen about the book,I went and bought 4 books on a gift voucher yesterday that sound's as if that might just have been the one to buy....If only thing's would run that easy Hey....

I was lucky enough to pick it up at a library sale for about two bucks.... I thought ' Army at Dawn' was better but Atkinson does offer some great anecdotes......

My favorite is one from the Sicilian campaign... Monty, riding in his staff car down a Sicilian road meets a truck driven by a Canadian soldier coming from the opposite direction.. The soldier is wearing a top hat he must have ' liberated' from a Sicilian.. As the two vehicles pass each other the Canuck doffs his top hat to Monty :yo: ... Monty and his staff had a good laugh but he felt compelled never the less to issue a reminder concerning proper dress in the 8th Army.....