The Big Three Allied leaders were vital to telling this story properly, and their prominence ensured that a great amount of archival detail was available to document their movements and thoughts. Books of note were The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939–1953, by Michael Parrish; Joseph Stalin: A Biographical Companion, by Helen Rappaport; The FDR Years, by William D. Pederson; My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin, edited by Susan Butler; No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin; Defending the West: The Truman-Churchill Correspondence, 1945–1960, edited by G. W. Sand; The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire, by Peter Clarke; and The Road to Berlin, volume 2 of Stalin’s War with Germany, by John Erickson.
Thanks to these authors, and to those whose books are not mentioned but whose research aided in building this narrative.
Acknowledgments
My assistant Makeda Wubneh and literary agent Eric Simonoff were invaluable in helping me write Killing Patton with Marty Dugard, the best researcher I have ever known.
—BILL O’REILLY
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Thanks to Eric Simonoff, the world’s greatest agent. To Bill O’Reilly, a master storyteller and all-around great guy from whom I have learned so much. And, as always, to Callie: You are my sunshine.
—MARTIN DUGARD
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Index
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Aachen
Abrams, Creighton “Abe”
Adlerhorst (Eagle’s eyrie)
Alliluyeva, Natasha
American Cemetery, Hamm, Luxembourg
Amsterdam
Anderson, Harry
Antwerp
Appman, Charles
Ardennes Forest. See also Battle of the Bulge
Argentan
Arnold, Henry “Hap”
“Aryan certificate”
Assenois
atomic bomb
Auschwitz-Birkenau
crematoria
escapes
liberation and survivors
Mengele experiments
Austria
Babalas, Peter K.
Bad Nauheim
Bad Tölz
Baker Company
Bandera, Stepan
baseball
Bastogne
Battle of the Bulge
Assenois
Bastogne
element of surprise
Elsenborn Ridge
end of
La Gleize
Malmedy Massacre
Noville
Operation Greif
Baum, Abraham
Bazata, Douglas
BBC
Belgium. See also Battle of the Bulge
Belzec
Bennett, Paul
Bergen-Belsen
Beria, Lavrentiy
Berlin
Allied bombing of
Battle of
Hitler’s bunker in
postwar division of
Soviet army in
Blokhin, Mikhailovich
Blowtorch Brigade
Boettiger, Anna Roosevelt
Boggess, Charles
Bolshoi Theater
Bormann, Martin
Boxing Day
Bradley, Omar
Battle of the Bulge
Braun, Eva
Britain, Battle of
British army
Battle of the Bulge
Rhine offensive
Sicily campaign
Buchenwald
Budapest
Bulgaria
Bull, Harold
Büllingen
Burgdorf, Wilhelm
Byrnes, J. F.
Caesar, Julius
Canada
Carlyle, Thomas
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Chaumont
Chelmno
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Christmas
in Soviet Union
Churchill, Winston
drinking of
Potsdam Conference
Roosevelt and
Stalin and
at Yalta
Citrónóva, Helena and Rozinka
Civil War (U.S.)
Clochimont
Codman, Charles
Cold War
combat fatigue
communism
Chinese
Greek
Soviet
concentration camps
liberation of
Congress, U.S.
Cuneo, Ernest
Currie, J. C.
Czechoslovakia
Dachau
D-day
Denmark
Desobry, William
Dewey, Thomas
Dickerman, Milton
Dickson, Benjamin “Monk”
Dietrich, Marlene
Distinguished Service Cross
Donovan, William “Wild Bill”
Nuremberg Trials and
Doolittle, Jimmy
Dresden
Driant assault
Dun, Angus
Dwight, William
Eastern Europe
concentration camps
postwar division of
see also specific countries
East Prussia
Easy Company
Echternach
Eden, Anthony
VIII Corps
Eighty-Second Airborne Division
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Battle of the Bulge
leadership style
Patton and
as president
Kay Summersby and
Eisenhower, Mamie
Elsenborn Ridge
Étain
Falaise Pocket
Fifteenth Army
Fifth Infantry Division
Driant assault
Fighting Sixty-Ninth
First Army
Battle of the Bulge
Forgan, J. Russell
Fourth Armored Division
foxholes
France
Nazi occupation of
Resistance
World War I
Frank, Anne
Frank, Otto
Frankfurt
Frederick the Great
friendly fire
Gaffey, Hugh
Gay, Hobart “Hap”
Geising, Erwin
Geneva Convention
George Company
German navy
Germany
Allied advance into
invasion of Soviet Union
nuclear capabilities
Nuremberg Trials
persecution of Jews
postwar
racial purity
World War I
Gerow, Leonard T.
Gerrie, Jack
Gestapo
Gladstone, William
Goebbels, Joseph
Goebbels, Magda
Goering, Hermann
gold
Gordon, Jean
Grant, Ulysses S.
Great Britain
German bombing of
global empire of
Parliament
Soviet relations with
U.S. relations with
Great Depression
Greece
Guadalcanal
Gypsies
Haase, Werner
Hahn, Otto
Halsey, William F.
Hammelburg mission. See Task Force Baum
Harkins, Paul
Harper, Paul
Harriman, W. Averell
Hautval, Adelaide
Heidelberg
Hendrix, James R.
Henke, Hellmuth
Hess, Rudolf
Himmler, Heinrich
Hiroshima
Hitler, Adolf
at Adlerhorst
anti-Semitic policies