English

General George S. Patton, Jr., Man Under Mars

1946 biography of General Patton. Preface: "THIS book is not an official biography of General George Smith Patton, Jr.; it is an interpretative study of an American who typifies in his career and personality a phase of history which has just ended with the last of what we may come to know as the "Gunpowder Wars." So far, Patton has been written about almost exclusively under the title of "Old Blood and Guts," though no one associated with him or his armies ordinarily calls him by that name. The impression given by newspaper and magazine accounts is of a brilliant and impetuous general who makes war as exciting and colorful a spectacle as an epic in glorious technicolor. Whatever Patton did, he seems to have had a label slapped on him. The labels are many, including among the more complimentary, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, The Man from Mars, The Green Hornet, Iron Pants, and, of course, Old Blood and Guts. After the "slapping" incident in Sicily, he was known as "the man 50,000 G.I.s were waiting to shoot." After the Third Army's victories in Europe, he was re-labelled Hero. Before long he can, in the nature of things, expect to be called Fascist and Warmonger. Who, then, is this Pat

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