Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
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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
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About the Authors
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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.
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