Some interesting discussions:

“Patton telephoned me that evening from Lucky Forward near Laval. ‘We’ve got elements in Argentan,’ he reported. ‘Let me go on to Falaise and we’ll drive the British back into the sea for another Dunkirk.’‘Nothing doing,’ I told him, for I was fearful of colliding with Montgomery’s forces. ‘You’re not to go beyond Argentan. Just stop where you are and build up that shoulder. Sibert tells me the German is beginning to pull out. You’d better button up and get ready for him.’” “A Soldier’s Story,” by General Omar N. Bradley

---------

Since Patton’s diary was a record of his intensely personal and often critical thoughts and comments, it was not published until after Eisenhower’s death. Patton had often criticized Bradley’s timidity and mediocrity in his diary.

There was much in Patton’s diary that, while interesting from a historical perspective, was hardly flattering. For instance, Patton wrote about Bradley,

“His success is due to his lack of backbone and subservience to those above him. I will manage without him. In fact, I always have; even in Sicily he had to be carried.” Patton’s Diary

----------

Sometimes Montgomery would give a speech without properly evaluating its effect on his men’s morale. In an address to a grenadier battalion before Mareth he told them that, “When I give a party, it is a good party. And this is going to be a good party.” His men remembered his words when 200 of their number didn’t return alive. At Market-Garden, a terrible disaster-plan of his in France, he told his men that he “wouldn’t want to miss this party.” Almost 2/3rds of them didn’t return.

--------

Montgomery’s Market Garden reaped a staggering 17,000 in killed, missing and wounded during the 9 day venture behind enemy lines.After 13,226 of his British troops had died, Montgomery decided to pull out and labeled the mission a “success.”
Bernhard, the Prince of the Netherlands at that time, seems to sum it up. It was he who said, “My country can never again afford the luxury of another Montgomery success.”

-------

The Germans didn’t know who was in command of the Third Army, but they did know that in seven days the Third Army had stolen 10,000 square miles from their “victorious Reich;” a faster advance than any army in history. They must have suspected that it was Patton, because the Germans always held Patton in higher respect than the Americans. After all, the Third Army’s stunning advance was far faster than the German blitzkrieg.
In one of the most stupid decisions of the war, Patton was ordered to halt at Falaise and wait for Montgomery to close the gap between the two cities. It took Montgomery 2 weeks to close the gap, during which most of the German divisions escaped. Had Patton been allowed to close the gap, the war would have ended in August 1944 (??)

http://www.pattonuncovered.com/html/war.html

September of 1944 was a difficult time for the Third Army. Montgomery had pressured Eisenhower into putting all the Allied production, manpower, and materiel behind his plan. As a consequence, Patton was left without gas to cool his heels at the gates of the fortress city of Metz.
Imagine Patton, entirely without gas, his army almost completely without food, watching helplessly as the Germans reorganized and filled Metz's forts. Patton’s tanks, at the outskirts of Metz, were helpless. Two thirds of his armor had no gas, while the other third had only enough ammunition for 7 rounds a day.

..After the Battle of the Bulge ended, the allied Armies drove onwards to the Rhine. Per usual, Montgomery was the last across, even though he had the largest operation prepared for crossing...

-----
It was at this time that Eisenhower made his incredibly foolish decision not to take Berlin. He then sent the Russians a copy of his plan to halt along the Elbe. Churchill – and Patton – were furious
Patton told the Secretary of State that, “We have had a victory over the Germans and disarmed them, but we have failed in the liberation of Europe; we have lost the war!”

After the end of the war, Patton was left to take care of domestic problems in Austria and Bavaria. At that time, Eisenhower’s policy was to bar all nominal members of the Nazi party in any civil capacity. Since 85% of Germans had become registered members of the Nazi party so as to escape extermination, it was clear to Patton that it would be impossible to run a country in this fashion. Patton disagreed with Eisenhower's orders – but as usual he obeyed them.

One day some newspapermen (always Patton’s enemies) arranged to trap him. They spoke, said witnesses, in a very condescending manner and aimed to get him angry. They asked him questions that they already knew the answers to and tried to trap him. They asked him what he thought of the fact that members of the Nazi party couldn’t hold any positions. They already knew Patton’s feelings on the matter, but if they could get him to express them, Patton would be discredited. "After all," one of the newspapermen said, "The Nazi party is a political party isn't it? Like the Democrats and Republicans?" "Yes," said Patton.

For that answer, Patton would lose command of the army he loved and had led so well.

__________________