Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus--riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now from Bill O’Reilly, anchor of The O’Reilly Factor, comes the most epic book of all in this multimillion-selling series: Killing Patton.
General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident--and may very well have been an act of assassination. Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton’s tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced.
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1) A solid murder mystery, in O'Reilly style - There are no less than a half-dozen theories about General Patton's death and countless books on the subject, so where does In Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General by Bill O'Reilly fit in? Much of the same ground that has already been crossed before: from Josef Stalin to "Wild Bill" Donovan and Douglas Bazata, an OSS operative whose story has been discredited and debunked, O'Reilly's book seems to follow many of the threads in Robert Wilcox's 2010 book Target: Patton -- The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton. But this book has plenty to offer.
O'Reilly and his editors do a decent job of tying in much of the history preceding Patton's death and attempts to find every angle on Patton's death. However, all it has ever been found to be was a tragic and unfortunate accident between a truck and Patton's limo. Nonetheless the mysterious death of one of our most high-profile generals is a hard thing to ignore.
If anything, the book, as many of O'Reilly's other ones in the Killing series, serves as a general historical overview piece, albeit one with mystery and intrigue laced into it in attempts to keep the reader engaged. Though it is styled to be a work of nonfiction, it sensationalizes a contoversial ending of a greater-than-life individual who was both idolized and rankled by the people, military, and government.
A good casual read if you have read and like O'Reilly's Killing series books. Note there are plenty other books too, for those who are into finding out more about Patton's history and the conspiracy theory books on his death will have to look somewhere else.
By outwest on September 23, 2014
2) Patton Revisited - 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 and 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 and controversial military leader who wore ivory-handled revolvers and 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.
Patton the perpetual warrior was assigned to restore German Bavaria after the Nazi surrender, and as usual strived for progress. He believed in using former Nazi officials and captured troops to begin the rebuilding of Germany. Although very effective, he stepped on too many toes with the upper allied Brass. He strongly believed that another war was possible with the Soviet Union, and his opinion lead to losing command of the 3rd Army and reassignment to the 15th Army (a small Historical Unit).
It was all over for Patton and he planned a permanent vacation back home to the States, when the bizarre happened. A day before his departure he was involve in a Traffic accident leaving him permanently paralyzed. He died shortly thereafter from the resulting complications of the neck fracture.
There has been lesser known books written to expose a conspiracy to the facts behind his dead implicating the USSR down to Eisenhower; however, these theories never hit the mainstream until now.
Mr. O'Reilly will take you into uncharted water regarding the circumstances and suspicion behind the untimely death of GS Patton. The book clips along with unknown events and facts regarding the remaining post war months of GS Patton and his demise. The book as usual can't be put down, and Mr. O'Reilly's big step into conspiracy
theory starts here.
By BookVodney on September 23, 2014
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