Podcast #992: Patton and the Bulge: Blood, Guts, and Prayer

Common George S. Patton is understood for his aggressive, action-oriented tactical brilliance.

His character was additionally marked by a lesser-known however equally basic mystic piety.

These two qualities would come collectively within the lead as much as and execution of Patton’s best achievement throughout WWII: the reduction of Bastogne through the Battle of the Bulge.

Alex Kershaw tells this story in his new ebook Patton’s Prayer: A True Story of Braveness, Religion, and Victory in World Conflict II. As we speak on the present, Alex shares how, when the Third Military’s advance into Germany was stalled by plane-grounding clouds and road-muddying rain, Patton commissioned a prayer for higher climate that was distributed to 1 / 4 million of his males, and the way that prayer turned much more pressing after the graduation of the Battle of the Bulge. We additionally discuss Patton’s qualities as a frontrunner and a person, together with his studying habits, how he mixed a profane assertiveness with a pious religion and a perception in reincarnation, and what occurred to him because the battle got here to an in depth.

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