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...Knew It is not Patton's diary (kept from July 1942 to Dec. 5, 1945), but a separate book about the ETO campaigns which draws on his diary and what are referred to as "open" letters from the General to Mrs. Patton. An introductory section of letters from North Africa and Sicily will be an eye-opener for many a reader fattened on the journalists' "blood and guts" legend: "Just finished reading the Koran-a good book and interesting." Patton had a keen eye for native customs and methods, wrote knowingly of local architecture, even rated the progress...
...high school, Keiver also played between the guards and ends, plugging the line for Swampscott High for two years. Then a sergeant in the Army, ETO, for two more years, he returned to Cambridge in time for the 1946 football season. House Grid Ratings Won Lost Tied Kirkland 4 0 0 Eliot 3 0 1 Leverett 4 1 0 Dudley 3 3 0 Lowell 2 2 0 Adams 2 4 0 Winthrop 1 4 0 Dunster...
...have read Lucky Forward and find that it is the most authentic work yet done on Patton, the Third Army or the ETO high command. However, since I was [with] General Patton from the time of the landings in North Africa until war's end in the Reich, perhaps I did not view his activities from the vantage point enjoyed by TIME'S book editor nested away in New York City...
...offered Dr. Hawley an unattractive job. Veterans' medicine, under fire from Congress and the press, was a mess of red tape, indifference, discouraged patients, scarce equipment, underpaid doctors. Major General Hawley, third in a line of Indiana family doctors, had been chief surgeon of the ETO, and he felt "called." He wanted not only to clean up V.A., but to give veterans the best medicine the U.S. could offer...
Lucky Forward is peppered with similar charges, none of them convincingly sustained. Says Allen: "Patton was the sparkplug and dynamo of the war in the ETO. The full record of his genius and far-flung impact on operations still is entombed behind an official wall of jealous silence and so-called 'classified documents...