world war i that is john j percy who is also a big character in this book along with a very young george patton. describe their roles. into you think pershing learned anything from fighting in mexico compared to europe from a military standpoint quick. >> with the general pershing with my research in this book he was put in an impossible position leading that expedition into mexico. first he is told the public expects you to catch teefour and bring him back if you can't do that at least destroy it so he can never be in a position to do this again. do whatever you have to do to do that. on the other hand, do not give any impression to the mexican people are government we are willing to come in as part of an invasion or to occupy it. don't upset the mexican government. it is already upset and pershing chases teefour over northern mexico gets close but never gets him. he loses to those mexico forces when pershing knows he could just fight with those frustrations he is a proud soldier but on the other hand finally for the last six months they are up against the border surrounded on three sides by t

i described it before, and i thought he looked like george patton. i remember he put his hat back on and walked right back out through the doorway into the tunnel, and i followed him. it was at that point that i think when i started to approach that group of officers there defending the doorway that i realized the gravity of the situation. my initial thought was these guys look like -- they look beat to hell, and maybe i could try and get in there and get some guys some help, so i told jimmy that we needed to get in there and try to offer assistance. that's what we did initially. we started making our way through the crowd of officers yelling out, who needs a break? like i said in my initial testimony, there were no volunteers. there were officers who identified other colleagues who were in need of help. i remember somebody yelling out, this guy needs help. he handed me that officer, handed him off to jimmy and told him to get him to the back, and i continued to make my way up to the front lines. once i got up there, it was the first time i really ca

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i described it before i thought he looked like george patton. i remember he put his hat back on and walked right back out through the doorway into the tunnel and i followed him. it was at that point i think when i started approaching that group of officers there defending the doorway that i realized the gravity of the situation. my initial thought was these guys look like -- they look beat to hell. and, you know, maybe i could try to get in there and get some guys some help. so i told jimmie that we needed to get in there and try to offer assistance and that's what we did initially. we started making our way through the crowd of officers, yelling out who needs a break? and like i said in my initial testimony, there were no volunteers. there were officers who identified other colleagues who were in need of help and i remember somebody yelling out this guy needs help and handed me that officer. i handed him off to jimmie and told him to get him to the back and i continued to make my way up to the front lines. once i got up there, it was the first

my grandfather's heroes, we were talking about this earlier today, one was george patton and the other was douglas macarthur in these are well-known egotists at one time i was critical of that. as i have read military history and studied over the years i've come to appreciate that at times the personality, the personality of the commander can be very important former row and that is illustrated by the egotism of patton which was probably staged. in the movie where his aid says sometimes it is hard to tell when you're acting and when you are not. and patton replies it is not important for them to know. it is important for me to know which means he was an actor but sometimes the outsized personality, the flamboyant uniforms and so forth can build morale. a lot of books, i inscribed in the european theater, i go over two distinct types of inscriptions. one was derek jacoby who fathered -- served with my grandfather in europe and the other was joseph smith served in the third army under patton. there is great pride in that and that might be at times that is necessary but at the very top, p

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