Blood, Guts, and Grease ably fills in an all-too-forgotten period in George Patton's crowded life. What emerges is an enigmatic, mercurial, ambitious, and sometimes egotistical young officer, but one who was also devoted to cause, country, and mission, inspirational to his men, and brilliant and brave in combat. No one can really understand the Patton of World War II until they know about the man who fought through the First World War.
~Thomas Bruscino, US Army War College
Mikolashek's fine work is built around a careful investigation of George Patton's original papers, and because of this, the reader will discover fundamental relationships, events, and insights from his World War I days that begin to shape the soldier he became in World War II.
~Ed Coss, US Army Command and General Staff College
This important work is not only an origin of a legend but the account of a man who becomes a leader, an experiment that becomes the weapon, and a conflict gaining deserved new attention a century after it ended.
~Vincent P. Mikkelsen, American Military University
Blood, Guts, and Grease deserves to be read...because it sheds light on the complex personality that has been, in many ways, masked by the legend that emerged during World War II and has grown since.
~Col. Gregory Fontenot, ARMY Magazine
Countless biographies have been written about George S. Patton Jr. Unfortunately most pay only little attention to Patton's World War I experiences, which were the bedrock of his successful command of a corps and two field armies in World War II. Jon B. Mikolashek's Blood, Guts and Grease: George S. Patton in World War I fills that void with his detailed and insightful examination of this seminal period of Patton's career.
~ARMOR Magazine
As Mikolashek successfully argues in this incisive biography, truly understanding Patton the general officer, legendary for his World War II victories, requires knowing how his Great War experiences helped prepare him for those epic campaigns.
~Journal of Military History
