New Book on Assassination of Gen. George Patton

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

There is a great review in the London Daily Telegraph of a new book out on the assassination of General George Patton at the end of WWII, Target Patton by military historian Robert Wilcox. The scenario is remarkbly similar to the movie Brass Target that came out about 20 years ago.

Wilcox uses interviews with the OSS assassin who staged the car accident and fired a low velocity projectile that broke Patton's neck and excerps from his diary, citing orders from General ''Wild Bill'' Donovan, head of the OSS as the basis for the operation. The author also interviewed an OSS agent who had discovered after Patton had unexpected started to recover from his injuries in the hospital that the Soviet NKVD had Patton on a death list. Instead of providing Patton with protection against the NKVD poision plot, the OSS had this agent transfered back to the states, essentially looking the other way while the Soviets finished the job.

While I have often had trouble with links to specific pages of the Telegraph working when I have posted them in the past, you can find it by looking around on the Telegraph site at Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph - Telegraph

The OSS, incidentally, is the predecessor of the CIA.

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

Robert Wilcox was interviewed on the radio late one night and it was very interesting to listen to. Here is a link. I enjoy listening to Doug McIntyre very much but the interview may have been on a different station that night.