Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General Hardcover – September 23, 2014
Author: Visit Amazon’s Bill O’Reilly Page | ISBN: 080509668X
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- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition (September 23, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 080509668X
- ISBN-13: 978-0805096682
- Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
General G.S. Patton’s life and times were pretty well defined for many decades based on the book Courage & Valor, and the related Oscar winning award movie “Patton” starring G. C. Scott, and the lesser known movie “Patton’s last days’. That is up until now with this new page flipping book.In my opinion, there hasn’t been much thought of Patton in the past decades. He was an early 20th century military hero whom fought in both the WW’s in Europe and was instrumental for the success on the western allied front in WWII. General G.S. Patton was a controversial, aggressive leader who commanded forces to victories in North Africa, Sicily and the Western front post D-Day.
He gave America & Western forces hope by being among the 1st to face off with Nazi forces in North Africa and win, and he continued on up till the Elba River to be the most successful General for the western allied forces.
George Patton, a dynamic & controversial military leader who wore ivory-handled revolvers & flashy uniforms commanded the US 3rd Army, which cut a swathe through France after D-Day leading to the liberation of Paris. But his ambition to get to Berlin before Soviet forces was halted by Dwight D. Eisenhower (supreme allied commander & future President) who diverted Patton’s petrol supplies to the more cautious British General Bernard Montgomery. Patton, believed Eisenhower wrongly prevented him from closing the so-called Falaise Gap in the autumn of 1944, allowing hundreds of thousands of German troops to escape to fight again. This led to the deaths of thousands of Americans during the Nazi winter counter-offensive that became known as the Battle of the Bulge.
A few chapters into the book I asked myself what is this book is all about and why was it written at all. I couldn’t find any facts in the book that hadn’t been documented before in numerous books about Patton and WWII. It is certainly not a book about Patton, his life, his career or his death. Nor is it a book about WWII since it covers only the last six months of the war in the West European theatre. Only the last chapter of the book is related to Patton’s death. However the book doesn’t reveal anything new but is more of a rehash of some conspiracy theories that have been around since his death.
Unfortunately O’Reilly plays fast and loose with facts. Some parts seem to have been lifted from Wikipedia unchecked. The book has many inaccuracies or conjectures unsupported by facts. Many of them seem to be insignificant and don’t detract from the overall story but nevertheless gives the informed reader the impression that the author is not in full control of the subject.
As an example, the author states that on April 20, 1945, in the garden behind the Reich Chancellery it was the last time Hitler saw the light of day when meeting with young soldiers. Fact is that on April 29 he made his last visit outside his bunker.
Another example, the book states that Skorzeny and Hitler know each other well and go a long way back since Skorzeny belonged to Hitler’s personal bodyguard for a long time. First, Skorzeny was never a bodyguard to Hitler. Fact is that Skorzeny belonged to the 1st Panzer Division "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler" between 1940 and 1941 as an engineer until he was wounded. The author makes the mistake to confuse the name of this division with the Fuhrer Begleitsbattailon, Hitler’s real personal body guard.
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