To: an amused spectator
I've read Carlo D'Este's bio. An excellent and complete work that puts a lot of emphasis on Patton's time with Pershing in the Villa campaign and his gunfight with two bandidos. A very balanced piece of work, but very ngative toward Bradley who does not come off the saint played by Karl Malden. This perception is butressed by a later work by Martin Blumenson and Russel Weigley's Eisenhower's Lieutenants. In D'Este's view Patton was a great leader and warrior.
10 posted on
04/14/2004 5:23:01 PM PDT by
xkaydet65
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To: xkaydet65
From the movie:
Writing credits
Ladislas Farago (book Patton: Ordeal and Triumph)
Omar N. Bradley (book A Soldier's Story)
Francis Ford Coppola (screen story) and
Edmund H. North (screen story)
Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay) and
Edmund H. North (screenplay)
12 posted on
04/14/2004 7:35:25 PM PDT by
an amused spectator
(FR: Leaving the burning dog poop bag of Truth on the front door step of the liberal media since 1996)
To: xkaydet65
I've read "Ordeal and Triumph" by Ladislas Fargo, and "War As I Knew It" by Patton himself which were his battle memoirs. The Fargo book was the basis for the movie with George C. Scott (himself such a liberal that he refused his own Oscar for the role). But the latter was a refreshing stroll through the mind of a professional warrior, without any political crapola.
14 posted on
04/14/2004 8:11:02 PM PDT by
ExSoldier
(When the going gets tough, the tough go cyclic.)
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