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Book Review: Story of WWII told through 3 generals
"Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War" (Crown Publishing, 448 pages, $30), by Terry Brighton: During a dinner in Saigon with some news correspondents in 1971, Gen. Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Vietnam, was asked his opinion of the movie, "Patton."
Abrams, who had served under the bombastic George S. Patton in World War II, paused. Then he slammed his fist on the table and...
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