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O'Reilly, Bill.
Killing Patton
[book] :
the strange death of World War II's most audacious general /
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard.
First edition.
New York, New York :
Henry Holt and Company,
2014.
352 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-337) and index.
Prologue -- Chapters 1-28 -- Afterword -- Postscript -- Appendix : Gen. George S. Patton's speech to the U.S. Third Army -- About the authors.
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.
20151113.
Patton, George S
(George Smith),
1885-1945
Death and burial.
Patton, George S
(George Smith),
1885-1945
Assassination.
United States
Army
Biography.
World War, 1939-1945
Europe.
Generals
United States
Biography.
Traffic accidents
Germany
Mannheim
History
20th century.
Conspiracies
History
20th century.
Dugard, Martin.
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