O’Reilly book to examine George Patton’s death

Associated Press ^ | May 28, 2014 11:02 PM EDT

[Olog-hai]

News host Bill O’Reilly’s fourth book in his multimillion-selling history series will examine the mysterious death surrounding famed World War II Gen. George Patton.

Stephen Rubin, president and publisher of Henry Holt and Company, announced Wednesday that “Killing Patton” will be published on Sept. 23. Martin Dugard will be the co-author. …

[andyk]

O’Reilly - you’re killing me.

[tbpiper]

I can hardly wait. Since he showed how Jesus actually died for taxes, I’m sure we’ll get an interesting take on Patton’s death as well. I guess that salvation thing was just a happy coincidence of a tax protest.

[ConservativeMan55]

Bump

[twister881]

Tedious blowhard.

[yldstrk]

He may be a blowhard but Pattons’ death may have been a murder too

[4yearlurker]

I watched an in depth show about Patton’s death last year. The guys that pulled in front of Patton’s vehicle in a Army truck were all drunk. Patton ordered from his death bed that he did not want any type of charges brought against the soldiers that would follow them the rest of their years.

[gunnyg]

0’Pinhead strikes (out) again!
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[gunnyg]

Did Patton outrank Ike at the conclusion of WWII?.......

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[centurion316]

In order to turn an automobile accident into a murder mystery, you have to write a work of fiction and that is what this will be, total fiction. Patton died in an automobile accident, period.

[rlmorel]

ping

[Vendome]

I don’t understand.

Thought he came back....

[RightGeek]

English is apparently a second language at the AP:

will examine the mysterious death surrounding famed World War II Gen. George Patton.

should be

will examine the mystery surrounding the death of famed World War II Gen. George Patton.

or

will examine the mysterious death of famed World War II Gen. George Patton.

[Doctor 2Brains]

Post of the day. Well said.

[PghBaldy]

This actually is an interesting idea. The other books he’s done have been done before, and better.

[PghBaldy]

“As it turned out Bazata, who had suffered a stroke and was, after a professional lifetime of silence, willing to talk, told me to my surprise that it was he who had been ordered to kill Patton. The order had come from OSS head, “Wild Bill” Donovan, and he had set up the accident with an NKVD agent, the Soviet spy agency...”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/the_mysterious_death_of_gen_george_s_patton.html

[CatherineofAragon]

LOL, can he just stop? Who’s going to write it for him?

[rlmorel]

I won't read anything written by The Blowhard, but I will say, from what I have read, the circumstances do seem odd. I do believe it is possible he was murdered, since it sounds like he had several instances of things "suddenly" appearing in front of his car during that unhappy time frame for him after Germany's surrender. On the other hand, he sounded extremely accident prone, and was always getting hurt. Somehow, after reading his life story, it wasn't a surprise to hear he was the only person who was injured at all in the collision that broke his neck. I remember thinking as I read it: "Huh. That figures."

I have read a few books about Patton, and he sounds like a fascinating person. He was an interesting example of a wild combination of flawed attributes with brilliant ones.

In the end, he was definitely the right tool for the right job, in my opinion. I agreed with on author who opined that it was probably a good thing Patton went out as he did, fairly suddenly, and right after the war.

My favorite (probably apocryphal) story is the one about the reporter who was visiting his troops. (This is paraphrased from memory since I don't have the book, so I might not have it completely accurate) By all accounts, this was one of Patton's favorite stories that he liked to hear and tell.

A reporter was visiting his troops, and while he was in the mess hall, he noticed they all had forks sticking out of their breast pockets. When the reporter asked the soldier what the forks were for, the soldier replied: "The General is particular about hygiene. He demands we wash our hands after using the latrine, and before eating meals. When food is passed along the table on a plate, we are supposed to use our fork from our pocket to spear the food instead of using our fingers."

The reporter then went to the latrine, and noticed all the soldiers had a string that disappeared into their fly. He asked one soldier what that was for, and the soldier said: "The General doesn't want us to use our hands to remove our privates. We are supposed to use the string to pull it out to urinate."

The reporter thought about this, then said: "Hm. Really? How do you manage to get your privates back in your pants without using your hands?"

The soldier replied: "Well, I can't speak for the other guys, but I use my fork!"

[Olog-hai]

The real writer’s name is in the first post: Martin Dugard.

[rlmorel]

That is the way I have always looked at it. Trying to kill someone by creating a situation where a collision occurs seems extremely inefficient, requiring a lot of setup and timing.

I always thought it was just an accident.