Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

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by Bill O'Reilly


  Driant assault

  Dun, Angus

  Dwight, William

  Eastern Europe

  concentration camps

  postwar division of

  see also specific countries

  East Prussia

  Easy Company

  Echternach

  Eden, Anthony

  VIII Corps

  Eighty-Second Airborne Division

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  Battle of the Bulge

  leadership style

  Patton and

  as president

  Kay Summersby and

  Eisenhower, Mamie

  Elsenborn Ridge

  Étain

  Falaise Pocket

  Fifteenth Army

  Fifth Infantry Division

  Driant assault

  Fighting Sixty-Ninth

  First Army

  Battle of the Bulge

  Forgan, J. Russell

  Fourth Armored Division

  foxholes

  France

  Nazi occupation of

  Resistance

  World War I

  Frank, Anne

  Frank, Otto

  Frankfurt

  Frederick the Great

  friendly fire

  Gaffey, Hugh

  Gay, Hobart “Hap”

  Geising, Erwin

  Geneva Convention

  George Company

  German navy

  Germany

  Allied advance into

  invasion of Soviet Union

  nuclear capabilities

  Nuremberg Trials

  persecution of Jews

  postwar

  racial purity

  World War I

  Gerow, Leonard T.

  Gerrie, Jack

  Gestapo

  Gladstone, William

  Goebbels, Joseph

  Goebbels, Magda

  Goering, Hermann

  gold

  Gordon, Jean

  Grant, Ulysses S.

  Great Britain

  German bombing of

  global empire of

  Parliament

  Soviet relations with

  U.S. relations with

  Great Depression

  Greece

  Guadalcanal

  Gypsies

  Haase, Werner

  Hahn, Otto

  Halsey, William F.

  Hammelburg mission. See Task Force Baum

  Harkins, Paul

  Harper, Paul

  Harriman, W. Averell

  Hautval, Adelaide

  Heidelberg

  Hendrix, James R.

  Henke, Hellmuth

  Hess, Rudolf

  Himmler, Heinrich

  Hiroshima

  Hitler, Adolf

  at Adlerhorst

  anti-Semitic policies

  assassination plot against

  Battle of the Bulge

  Berlin bunker

  death of

  family of

  physical decline

  Hitler Youth

  Hodges, Courtney

  Holmlund, Robert W.

  Holocaust

  homosexuals

  Honsfeld

  Hopkins, Harry

  Horthy, Miklós

  Höss, Rudolf

  Hughes, Everett

  Hungary

  Huy

  Istomina, Valentina

  Italy

  fall of Messina

  Jackson, Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall”

  Japan

  attack on Pearl Harbor

  Jedburghs

  Jews

  Auschwitz survivors

  Nazi persecution of

  Roosevelt and

  Jodl, Alfred

  Johnson, Andrew

  Jones, Alvin

  Junge, Traudl

  Kamera

  Kampfgruppe Petersen

  Kapler, Alexei

  Katyn massacre

  Keitel, Wilhelm

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kesselring, Albert

  Keyes, Geoffrey

  King, Ernest

  Kinnard, Harry

  Koblenz

  Koch, Oscar

  K-rations

  Krummer, Frank

  Kuhl, Charles H.

  La Gleize

  LaPrade, James

  Leahy, William

  Lee, Duncan

  Lee, Robert E.

  Legendre, Gertrude Sanford

  Lehrterstrasse Prison

  Leningrad

  Leopoldville, SS

  Lepeshinskaya, Olga

  Libusha, Linda

  Lincoln, Abraham

  London

  bombing of

  London Protocol

  Losheim Gap

  Luftwaffe

  Lüttwitz, Heinrich

  Luxembourg

  MacArthur, Douglas

  Maisel, Ernst

  Majdanek

  Malmedy Massacre

  Manhattan Project

  Mao Tse-tung

  Marshall, George

  McAuliffe, Anthony

  McCloy, John J.

  McCown, Hal

  McKim, Edward D.

  Medal of Honor

  medics

  Meeks, William George

  Mengele, Josef

  Merkers

  Messina

  Metz

  Meuse-Argonne, Battle of

  Meuse River

  Mexico

  Middleton, Troy

  Mims, John

  Molotov, Vyacheslav

  Montgomery, Bernard Law

  Patton and

  Rhine offensive

  Moore, Ned

  Morell, Theodor

  Morgenthau Plan

  Moscow

  Moselle River

  Mozes, Eva and Miriam

  Murphy, James G.

  Mussolini, Benito

  Nancy, France

  Napoléon Bonaparte

  Nazism

  Neufchâteau

  New Deal

  newsreels

  Nierstein

  Nimitz, Chester

  Ninety-Ninth Division

  Malmedy Massacre

  Niven, David

  Nixon, Richard

  NKVD

  Noland, Frederick, The Algonquin Project

  North Africa

  Noville

  Nuremberg Trials

  October Pause

  Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

  Ohrdruf

  Oldham

  101st Airborne Division

  Operation Baseplate

  Operation Greif

  Operation Market Garden

  Operation Mickey Mouse

  Operation Plunder. See also Rhine offensive

  Operation Tink

  Operation Watch on the Rhine. See Battle of the Bulge

  Oppenheim

  Oppenheimer, Robert

  O’Regan, Richard H.

  Ott, Mel

  Pacific Theater

  Palatinate campaign

  Paluch, Ted

  Paris

  parlementaires

  Patterson, Robert

  Patton, Beatrice

  Patton, George S.

  auto crash and controversy

  Battle of the Bulge

  children of

  death of

  Driant assault

  ego of

  Eisenhower and

  end of combat career

  enemies and near-death “coincidences”

  four-star rank

  Jean Gordon and

  as military governor of Bavaria

  Montgomery and

  at Ohrdruf

  Operation Tink

  Palatinate campaign

  Pearl Harbor predicted by

  physical appearance of

  relieved of Third Army command

  religion of

  Rhine offensive

  Sicily campai
gn

  slapping incidents

  Soviet Union and

  speech to Third Army

  Spitfire incident

  tactical brilliance

  Task Force Baum

  Truman and

  vulgarity of

  in World War I

  Pearl Harbor

  Pearson, Drew

  Peiper, Joachim

  penicillin

  Pershing, John

  P-47 Thunderbolts

  Phillips, ZeBarney Thorne

  Poland

  concentration camps

  pontoon bridges

  Postyshev, Pavel

  Potsdam Conference

  Prague

  press

  British

  military

  Patton and

  Soviet

  Prettyman, Arthur

  prisoners of war

  Allied

  German

  Malmedy Massacre

  Soviet

  Task Force Baum

  women as

  Purple Heart

  radio

  intercepted messages

  silence

  rape

  Rayburn, Sam

  Red Army. See Soviet army

  Red Cross

  refugees

  Reims

  Remagen Bridge

  Rhine offensive

  Rhine River

  Roberts, William

  Romania

  Romans

  Rommel, Erwin

  Rommel, Manfred

  Roosevelt, Alice

  Roosevelt, Anna

  Roosevelt, Eleanor

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Churchill and

  death of

  fourth inaugural

  Jews and

  New Deal

  physical ailments

  Stalin and

  at Yalta

  Roosevelt, Theodore “Teddy”

  Royal Air Force

  bombing of Berlin

  Spitfire incident

  Rutherfurd, Lucy Mercer

  Saint-Mihiel

  St. Vith

  Sardinia

  Schroeder, Christa

  Schwalm Creek Valley

  “Screaming Meemie” rockets

  Scruce, Joe

  Sedov, Lev

  Serbia

  Seventh Army

  Sicily campaign

  Sheridan, Philip

  Sherman, William Tecumseh

  Sherman tanks

  Shoumatoff, Elizabeth

  Siberia

  Sibret

  Sicily

  Siegfried Line

  Sinatra, Frank

  Skorzeny, Otto

  Skubik, Stephen

  slit latrine

  Slovakia

  Smith, Walter Bedell

  Sobibor

  Sochi

  Somerville, James

  Soviet army

  at Auschwitz

  Battle of Britain

  in Berlin

  rape and

  Soviet Union

  British relations with

  Christmas in

  communism

  expansionism

  German invasion of

  Katyn massacre

  nuclear weapons

  Patton and

  postwar

  U.S. relations with

  Speer, Albert

  spies

  Soviet-U.S. spy war

  Spitfire incident

  SS (Shutzstaffel)

  at Auschwitz

  Battle of the Bulge

  Malmedy Massacre

  Panzer divisions

  racial purity

  Waffen

  Stalin, Joseph

  Churchill and

  health problems

  Katyn massacre

  Potsdam Conference

  reign of terror

  Roosevelt and

  Sochi villa

  Truman and

  at Yalta

  Stalin, Svetlana

  Stalingrad

  Stephenson, William

  Stimson, Harold

  Stone, Harlan

  Strassmann, Fritz

  Strong, Kenneth

  Summersby, Kay

  Switzerland

  tank corps, U.S.

  at Bastogne

  Task Force Baum

  Team Desobry

  Tehran Conference

  Tenth Armored Division

  Third Army

  Battle of the Bulge

  Driant assault

  Palatinate campaign

  Patton’s speech to

  Rhine offensive

  Task Force Baum

  see also specific corps, divisions, and companies

  Thompson, John

  Thompson, Robert L.

  327th Glider Infantry Regiment

  Time magazine

  Tommies (British soldiers)

  Treblinka

  Trier

  Trotsky, Leon

  Truman, Bess

  Truman, Harry S.

  becomes president

  Patton and

  Potsdam Conference

  Stalin and

  Tunisia

  Twelfth Army

  Twentieth Amendment

  Twentieth Corps

  Twenty-Second Amendment

  U-boats

  United Nations

  U.S. Air Force

  U.S. Army. See specific armies, corps, divisions, and companies

  U.S. Navy

  urinating on enemy soil

  Verdun

  Versailles

  Vienna

  Villa, Pancho

  von Goeckel, Günther

  von Paulus, Friedrich

  von Rundstedt, Gerd

  von Wangenheim, Freiherr

  Walker, Walton

  Wallace, Henry

  Walpole, Horace

  War Agencies Appropriations Act (1944)

  Warm Springs, Georgia

  Warsaw

  Washington, DC

  Washington, George

  Waterloo, Battle of

  Waters, Beatrice Patton

  Waters, John

  Wehrmacht

  Battle of Berlin

  Battle of the Bulge

  deserters

  Driant assault

  Panzer divisions

  Rhine offensive

  Welles, Orson

  Wenck, Walther

  Werbomont

  West Point

  White House

  William the Conqueror

  Willkie, Wendell

  Wolf’s Lair

  Women’s Army Corps

  Woodring, Horace

  World War I

  Wunsch, Franz

  Yalta Conference

  Yezhov, Nikolai

  Yugoslavia

  Zborowski, Mark

  Zhukov, Georgy K.

  Ziegenberg

  Zyklon B

  ALSO BY BILL O’REILLY AND MARTIN DUGARD

  Killing Lincoln

  Killing Kennedy

  Killing Jesus

  About the Authors

  Bill O’Reilly is the anchor of The O’Reilly Factor, the highest-rated cable news show in the country. He also writes a syndicated newspaper column and is the author of several number-one bestselling books. He is, perhaps, the most-talked-about political commentator in America.

  Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of several books of history. He and his wife live in Southern California with their three sons.

  KILLING PATTON: THE STRANGE DEATH OF WORLD WAR II’S MOST AUDACIOUS GENERAL

  Copyright © 2014 by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Cover illustration by Tim O’Brien

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  The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  O’Reilly, Bill.

  Killing Patton: the strange death of World War II’s most audacious general / Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. — First edition.

  pages cm

  Includes index.

  ISBN 978-0-8050-9668-2 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-8050-9669-9 (electronic book)

  1. Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885–1945—Death and burial. I. Dugard, Martin. II. Title.

  E745.P3O74 2014

  355.0092—dc23

  2014019610

  First Edition: September 2014

 

 

 


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