[xkaydet65]

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.

[an amused spectator]

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)

[ExSoldier]

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.