"Patton’s Required Reading" Topic
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Tango01 | 20 Apr 2019 10:18 p.m. PST |
"It began with the classics, for the Pattons felt that life was too short to get one's education unless one started early, and the family loved to read aloud. By the time the future general had reached age eight, he had heard and acted out The Illiad, The Odyssey, some of Shakespeare's historical plays, and such books of adventure as The Scottish Chiefs, Conan Doyle's Sir Nigel, The White Company, The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard, The Boy's King Arthur, and the complete works of G. A. Henty. As a cadet he singled out the great commanders of history for his study, and I have his little notebook filled with military maxims, some signed J. C., some Nap, and some simply G. Sources were his specialty, and as a bride, I remember him handing me a copy of von Treitschke, saying: "Try and make me a workable translation of this. That book of von Bernhardi's, Germany and the Next War, is nothing but a digest of this one. I hate digests." Unfortunately, my German is not of that caliber, and he had to make do until a proper translation was published several years later. He was, however, one of the first Americans to own that translation, as later he owned translations of Marx, Lenin, and the first edition of Mein Kampf—believing that one can only understand Man through his own works and not from what others think he thinks. No matter where we moved, there was never enough room for the books. We were indeed lucky that an army officer's professional library is transported free…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
CeruLucifus | 21 Apr 2019 3:33 p.m. PST |
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Tango01 | 22 Apr 2019 10:37 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
Legion 4 | 22 Apr 2019 3:22 p.m. PST |
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Tango01 | 23 Apr 2019 10:49 a.m. PST |
Glad you like it too my good friend!. Amicalement Armand
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