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Target: Patton: The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert K. Wilcox
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 1229
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 444
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.7
ISBN: 1596985798
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.0092
EAN: 9781596985797
ASIN: 1596985798
Publication Date: November 25, 2008
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 Target Patton January 6, 2009
The author used two diaries along with interviews and a research for a behind the scenes report which reads like an exciting novel. A powerful book that changed my mind about the heros of World War II and the intrigue of the worlds leaders at the time. Amazing how politics played their part in that war.
5 STARS, Exactly what Patton should have been PROMOTED to January 1, 2009
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
A real American Hero, not the communist Eisenhower or Truman.
But let me tell you this... The book is supurb so far. For me to read 87 pages in an hour , if its other than Steven King, is a remarkable trip. The plausability of this book ring true to me. Remember, the founding fathers informed us to NEVER trust governments... including our own. Patton was the greatest American military leader save one (George Washington, by luck) and a tad better than McCarther.
My qoute? "if Tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign ENEMY:. -James Madison
Think, wake up and take the country back.
And no accident report to be found December 30, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The most compelling case to be made that General Patton was to be murdered was him telling his own family in the United States that they would not see him again. This during a visit in June 1945. He was also warned about a Russian plot to kill him by a Special Agent of the Counter-Intelligence Corps, Stephen J. Skubik. Mr. Skubik had privately published a book in 1993 titled The Murder of General Patton. Aside from other suspicious details, the author clearly shows Patton's disgust over the Russians being allowed to take over Eastern Europe after the war. In fact, though not mentioned in the book, Winston Churchill had a study drawn up titled Operation Unthinkable, in which a scenario involving the Rusian Army sweeping across Western Europe was contemplated. There was a working relationship between the still functioning but renamed OSS and the Russian NKVD. They had, after all, fought the Germans as our Allies, and Patton was talking about going to war with the Russians. The author suggests that an OSS-NKVD agreement was reached to eliminate the General.
In the midst of tying up loose ends in the immediate Post-War Period, it would have been a pragmatic solution. As any seasoned World War II historian knows, however, the Russians were merely Allies of convenience and tensions between the Americans and the Russians were in existence before the last bullets were fired in World War II, especially over the technological spoils of a defeated Germany. General Patton was indeed in the way of certain interests, and stability in Europe.
The author jumps around a bit in presenting his material but the writing is adequate. I think any reasonable person would be inclined to think there are enough unanswered questions to accept the possibility of an assassination. For example, he is able to prove that the General's car on display at the Patton Museum is not the genuine article. As to possible methods used to actually kill Patton, it appears that even exhuming the body might not give a definitive answer.
 Pretty Hard to believe December 24, 2008
6 out of 18 found this review helpful
I'll admit, I've not read the entire book, but the whole thing is completely implausible. Truman orders the OSS to be liqudated by 1 Oct of '45 with the OSS split up between the State Dept and the War Dept. OSS's reputation was in the dumper with the new President due to various reports and rumors. So at the same time he's telling Donovan to pack it in and get out of town he directs him to kill Patton? The whole thing is just silly.
 Minority view of the book December 23, 2008
After reading this book, I wished I can say that the book convince me that there was an actual plot to assassinate Patton and it
was successful. But even the book could not say so with any degree of
total certainty. And that where the problem of this book lies. It is a
nicely written book full of circumstantial evidences, full of
hypothetical scenarios and nice set of "what if" to go with it. But after reading this book, the contents still could not generate one piece of real evidence to back up any crediable assassiantion story. All the witnesses are very conveniently dead, there is no physical evidence, no paper trail outside of a questionable memoirs written by a former OSS man who claims that Will Donovan himself gave the order to assassinate one of United States' finest battle commanders. Historical
fantasy is a genre best left to Harry Turtlelove.
The book also have a tendency to over-hype certain elements of World
War II. I have put some examples here and see if anyone agrees: For one,
this book believes that Battle of the Bulge was some sort of total
disaster for the Allied forces until Patton came around to save the day. This book seem to forget that the Battle of the Bulge was a total disaster for the German military from Day 1 and their chances for success were so slim, almost every single German generals were against it. Whether Patton got there on time or if he was one week or two week late, this German offensive wasn't going anywhere after its initial outbreak. Only one who believed that this German offensive could have created another Dunkirk (see page 300) was Adolf Hitler himself who ordered it in the first place. For two, on page 235, the book goes off the deep end by saying FDR called publicly for castration of Germans after the war. The book cites Michael Beschloss' Conquerors book as a reference. I read this book and Beschloss mentioned this but he wrote that FDR was joking around with such an idea but never serious about it. For three, the book also appears to think that Patton spoke for the American people when he was insisting that we should go after the Soviets. Technically, I agreed with Patton as with the book but only in hindsight. In 1945, everybody wanted peace, especially Americans and the western powers. Patton's calls for war against the Soviets sounded not only pure warmongering but totally insane. I just gave three short examples of how this book tends to over-hype events to help create a gross circumstantial case in this book.
From how the book reads, it almost sound like outside of Patton, every Allied commanders and leaders were some sort of scoundrels, dishonorable men, jealous, hateful and envious of Patton. Is this how a conspiracy is born, the victim is honorable and everyone else are scums??
Only part of the book I thought had any merit was on the chapter where the book investigated the Patton's car at the Fort Knox's Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor. I believed that this book did prove something here. I agreed from what is written that the car displayed there is not the original article. Its close but I guess that what count in museums if you can't get the real thing. What happened to the real vehicle is purely conjectural. Probably got lost in the mist of history due to lack of interest at that time.
But I need not to write anymore then this. Of all the biographies written
on Patton over the past 68 years by respected and renowned historians,
not a single book have ever endorsed this hypothesis. Yes it was
mentioned in several books but immediately dismissed. The book tell a
nice story but it only a story.
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