This is John Batchelor, conversation with Professor Lloyd Clark about his book The Commanders.

This is the leadership journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel.

Patton is a challenge. He's a violent man with a very, very outrageous temper.

It disgraces him several times in his career.

The professor tells of one from the first war.

The incident in the second war was not unique.

At the same time, the professor finds a style

that is useful for patent. And he explains, Patton the armor commander, Patton the man who broke

out of Normandy and dashed across France, chasing the Germans back across the ride.

Here's Lloyd Clark on George Patton's

what you'd have to say, no anger management whatsoever,

a man in a rage or this later?

No, I think you're absolutely right.

These are behaviors that were in fact a trait of pattern

from relatively early in his military career. He was often abusive towards

his subordinates, either verbally or physically. we see as you said

the illustration of this in the first world war when he nearly killed a man with a

shovel who wouldn't get up under fire. He slaps two soldiers

in Sicily.

He was impetuous, he was hot-headed, he was arrogant,

and sometimes he couldn't control his behavior.

Now on one hand, that was a real problem for Eisenhower. What would he do? What would he say next?

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