Patton’s Fiery Rebuttal: How One General’s Data-Driven Showdown with British Commanders Changed the Course of World War II and Asserted America’s Military Might Over British Condescension
LONDON — A profanity-laced confrontation inside a British officers’ club in southern England has escalated into one of the most consequential showdowns of the Allied war effort, after word reached Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. that senior British commanders had dismissed American troops as “Britain’s inexperienced little brother” and “children playing at warfare with … Read more