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05-22-2010, 11:02 PM
I thought I had a pretty good handle on history and politics through most of my adult life. Last summer I read Target Patton by Robert Wilcox. It motivated me to read The Jedburghs by Lt. Col. Will Irwin (ret). I was stunned to realize how much of our current political circumstance can be traced to this point in our history. I was surprised how significant Patton's death was to history.
Target Patton makes a credible, well researched and documented case that his death was an assassination. Did you know there are other documented assassination attempts on Patton and that he knew he was a target and why. Most of us have processed filtered, revisionist accounts of Patton's death. This book is an eye opener and possibly exposes the biggest cover up in American history. It includes mysteriously vanishing records from government archives. Did I mention the OSS is the predecessor of the CIA? It sheds the light of day on FDR's infatuation with communism and the influence it may have had on his "New Deal", the growth of government and the unchecked expanding of government power.
The Jedburghs were an offshoot of the OSS and a possible factor in the death of Patton. Some Jedburghs went on to serve in government including the Nixon administration.
If you would like a fresh, startling perspective on where we are today with Obama and how we started down the path that got us here. Target Patton is an excellent, credible, well documented account.
My self imposed mission is to read them again this summer from the perspective of where we are today.
This is not intended to be a book review. It is directly relevant to the subject matter that appears in this forum.
Target Patton makes a credible, well researched and documented case that his death was an assassination. Did you know there are other documented assassination attempts on Patton and that he knew he was a target and why. Most of us have processed filtered, revisionist accounts of Patton's death. This book is an eye opener and possibly exposes the biggest cover up in American history. It includes mysteriously vanishing records from government archives. Did I mention the OSS is the predecessor of the CIA? It sheds the light of day on FDR's infatuation with communism and the influence it may have had on his "New Deal", the growth of government and the unchecked expanding of government power.
The Jedburghs were an offshoot of the OSS and a possible factor in the death of Patton. Some Jedburghs went on to serve in government including the Nixon administration.
If you would like a fresh, startling perspective on where we are today with Obama and how we started down the path that got us here. Target Patton is an excellent, credible, well documented account.
My self imposed mission is to read them again this summer from the perspective of where we are today.
This is not intended to be a book review. It is directly relevant to the subject matter that appears in this forum.