READERSVOICE.COM continues with another interesting sample from an out of print book…

Three Years with Eisenhower, the personal diary of Captain Harry S. Butcher, USNR, was published in 1946. The author was with General Eisenhower during World War Two. When they were based in London, Eisenhower told the author to keep a diary of everything that happened. So the author gives an interesting account of the day to day nuts and bolts of running the allied war effort in Europe and North Africa.

Here’s a sample: Algiers, Tuesday, August 17, 1943

…Blesse came in around noon and showed Ike the report, the gist of which was that Patton had visited evacuation hospitals and had routed out certain patients by the “scruff of the neck”, presumably suspicious they were laggards. Whatever the cause, Ike said he would have to give Patton a jacking up. I added my nickel’s worth that regardless of method, Patton had done a swell job.

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