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Despite Pattons victory at Bastogne and his tremendous drive through SouthernGermany Eisenhower would cruelly relieve him of his post as Governor ofBavaria take away his beloved Third Army and finally relegate him to thecommand of the 15th US Army which existed on paper only.In this fast moving account Charles Whiting takes us through the dramaticbattles of that last year of the war and the new peace. Patton racing from theGerman frontier to the Rhine in a mere fifty hours his bitter rivalry tocross the great river before Montgomery the disastrous raid on Hammelburg POWcamp which finally turned Eisenhower against the 3rd Army Commander finalvictory in Czechoslovakia and Pattons urgent desire to continue fighting.This is the record of Pattons last year until he died not ironically on thebattlefield but peacefully in bed. «
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