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âIt would be as hard to give up all thought [of being a soldier] as it would be to stop breathing,â wrote George S. Patton in October 1945; âThe great tragedy of my life was that I survived the last battle.â But Patton would not see the year out: in December he would die as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Germany. His unexpected death sent shock waves through the American and Russian commands. It seemed plausible that Americaâs greatest general may have been a victim of foul play. In the seven months following the German surrender, Patton had openly and provocatively criticized the Soviet Union and appeared to have transformed from a staunch anti-Nazi to a Nazi sympathizer. The Last Days of Patton by Ladislas Farago, a follow-up to his bestselling Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, attempts to reconstruct the last months of Pattonâs life in order to determine if the general did indeed try to provoke a war with the Soviet Union and whether he failed to sufficiently de-Nazify the area of Germany under his jurisdiction. Farago also investigates the possibility of a conspiracy to murder Patton and reveals the role other prominent men, including Eisenhower, Montgomery, Marshall, and MacArthur, had in censuring and ultimately removing Patton from active service. The Last Days of Patton, originally published in 1981, is the story of the generalâs final battleâa professional soldier caught up in the changing politics of the emerging Cold War and new reality of the atomic age.
About: Uses previously unseen documents and actual medical records to reveal Patton's increasing irrationality after the war as he changed from anti-Nazi fanatic to staunch German champion, before his fatal jeep accident in 1945
About: âIt would be as hard to give up all thought [of being a soldier] as it would be to stop breathing,â wrote George S.
About: Uses previously unseen documents and actual medical records to reveal Patton's increasing irrationality after the war as he changed from anti-Nazi fanatic to staunch German champion, before his fatal jeep accident in 1945
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