Showing posts with label General George Patton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label General George Patton. Show all posts
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Killing Patton: The Strange Death Of World War II's Most Audacious General
Wes Vernon offers a good review of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General in the Washington Times.
“If you have read ‘Killing Kennedy,’” author and TV commentator Bill O'Reilly reminds his readers, “you know that Martin Dugard and I are not conspiracy theorists. We write from a factual point of view, with no axes to grind.”
Thus, in the afterword of “Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General” Mr. O'Reilly seeks to assure those who have just read this most recent volume in the co-authored (with Mr. Dugard) “killing” series that their findings are simply facts, not hype.
Careful shoe-leather detective work buttressed by research, access to decades-old correspondence and never-before publicized interrogations of sources from around the world have combined to give readers “Killing Patton.”
The famous tank commander had the proverbial bull’s-eye on his back from the day it was known that he did not trust our World War II “ally,” Marshal Josef Stalin. That was at a time when official U.S. government policy was to lure Stalin’s Soviet Union to join other allies (postwar) in forming and operating what became the United Nations.
Gen. Patton’s complaints included an order that American troops hold back on entering Berlin from the west until the Soviet troops could arrive in Germany from the east.
You can read the rest of the review via the below link:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/6/book-review-how-did-patton-die/
Monday, November 11, 2013
Happy Birthday To General George Patton
As Biography.com notes, today is the birthday of the late great General George Patton.
George Patton was born in San Gabriel, California on November 11, 1885.
Considered one of the most successful combat generals in U.S history, he was the first officer assigned to the Tank Corps in WWI. During WWII, he helped lead the Allies to victory in the invasion of Sicily, and was instrumental to the liberation of Germany from the Nazis.
He died on December 21, 1945 in Heidelberg, Germany.
You can read the rest of the piece and watch a video clip via the below link:
http://www.biography.com/people/george-patton-9434904
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