soc.history.war.world-war-ii

"David Thornley" wrote in message
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> In article ,
> Robert Sveinson wrote:
>
>>But non of the criticism levelled at Montgomery
>>held a candle to the criticism of Patton by Omar
>>Bradley and Carlo D'Este.
>>
> Omar Bradley was a fellow general. His opinions are of interest,
> but in my opinion he had a considerably worse grasp of how to fight
> a war than Patton did.

Bradley was Patton's subordinate, then leap frogged him
to become his superior.


>
> I am interested in what scathing and comprehensive criticism you
> found in D'Este's book "A Genius For War".

Wrong book. My cite is from Decision in Normandy, as my cite states.

See my post 29/03/2008 6:19PM.
I will repost it if you can't find it.



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