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Title: Charming War Memoir, Without the War
Review: A charming personal WWII memoir by Genl. Patton's aide-de-camp. Charles Codman was a Groton and Harvard man, a genuine Boston Brahmin, and an authentic WWI air hero. He spent the between-war period raising a family and building an apparently successful wine-import business. But after Pearl Harbor he joined the Army and became a "retread." Since his between-wars business involved extensive travel in France, Europe, and North Africa, he was the ideal Francophone to assist Patton during his campaigns there. The memoir is an edit of his letters home to his wife, and is just lovely. Not much meat for the military buff, but a very candid behind-the-headlines view of life with Patton. Codman and his wife knew absolutely everyone in "society," and the book is loaded with first-name and nickname references to very famous people. It truly was a different world, and noblesse oblige meant something.
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