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Book: Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
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  1. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing Patton: The Strange

    It is ironic that the people who make history are some of the most bold, courageous, and passionate people that have ever walked the earth, but the actual writing of history is often so fact driven that all emotion is deflated from the telling of a person's life story.
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  2. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing Patton: The Strange

    Screaming Meemie" rockets screech into the darkness, a deadly sound that American soldiers everywhere find unnerving.
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  3. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing Patton: The Strange

    For now, Patton keeps his comments to himself. Volatile words could get him fired - or even killed. Patton is a man of strong beliefs, and as he will tell the press in a few weeks, he is utterly sure of the Russian danger: 'Churchill had a sense of history. Unfortunately, some of our leaders were just damn fools who had no idea of Russian history. Hell, I doubt if they even knew {that} Russia, just less than a hundred years ago, owned Finland, sucked the blood out of Poland, and were using Siberia as a prison for their own people. How Stalin must have sneered when he got through with them at all those phony conferences.
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  4. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing Patton: The Strange

    The man with forty-five minutes to live cannot defend himself.
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  5. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing Patton: The Strange

    It's so dark," Patton says. "So late." He closes his eyes and falls back to sleep.
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  6. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing Patton: The Strange

    George Patton and Winston Churchill are simpatico.
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  7. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing Patton: The Strange

    Your greatest fault," Eisenhower tells Patton, "is your audacity.
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  8. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing Patton: The Strange

    The Russian general is used to such supplicant behavior. During the war, he ordered his troops to shoot any of their comrades who ran from the Germans, and any Russian village that was thought to have collaborated with the Nazis was burned to the ground. Zhukov is so feared that other Russian generals have been known to tremble in his presence. Patton does not tremble. "He was in full dress uniform much like comic opera and covered in medals," Patton later wrote to Beatrice of Zhukov. "He is short, rather fat and has a prehensile chin like an ape but good blue eyes." As Russian tanks rolled past the reviewing stand, Patton noticed Zhukov gloating over the new Soviet IS-3 model
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  9. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing Patton: The Strange

    The sand beneath the blast was instantly turned into a layer of green glass ten feet deep, and the shock waves could be felt one hundred miles away.
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  10. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing Patton: The Strange

    Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are, and probably more so.
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  11. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing Patton: The Strange

    Audacity, audacity, always audacity"-a motto that works well on the field of battle, but not so well in diplomatic situations.
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  12. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing Patton: The Strange

    Faith and patience be damned! You have just got to make up Your mind whose side You are on. You must come to my assistance, so that I may dispatch the entire German Army as a birthday present to your Prince of Peace. "Sir, I have never been an unreasonable man; I am not going to ask You to do the impossible.
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