I hate to let August 1 roll around without some sort of tribute to crazy George. The D'Este biography is very, very good.
There's a great anecdote in it about Patton passing up an opportunity to be military attache in London in the mid '30's. His wife wanted to go. But, he wrote her that the Brit men were wonderfully charming but treated there wives like crap, and were always very needy of funds. His very attractive daughters Ruth Ellen and Little Bee were in their late teens. So he passed that chance by. He wrote something like, "when I'm gone, tell the girls I wasn't such a mean old bastard after all."
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