Frank Sisson - I Marched with Patton Audiobook Free
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Review #1
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I gave up reading right behind 43 pages due to the creator’s disjointed & rambling acc of his maintenance. In those few pages, I found a number of historical incorrectness plus a number of incidents that a combat veteran would look for hard to reckon, such a saluting a sergeant, which is that not done as he is that not an officer, & never in a combat zone which can get that personality shot by a sniper! Also, the traffic jam incident suspiciously resembles the one portrayed in the Patton movie, favorite one to question whether it really happened. Plus, Patton, Bradley, & Eisenhower barely happen to drive by stuffed into one SUV, really??!! I had hoped to read a close to reality acc of the indefinite of a fighter in the Third part Army as my dad waged war with that unit but was sadly upset.
Review #2
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1st thanks to Mr. Sisson for his maintenance. 2nd, this is that a horribly done book in other words of course the product of a ghost writer stringing together a few disjointed recollections. The historical errors are glaring at the same time the dialog is that of course manufactured to bring Patton in to the story. For example, the book relates Sissons purported visit to the Musee dOrsay during quit in 1945 despite the fact that the Museum wasnt even implied until 1973. He also claims to have left Paris for militia academy training in Berlin on VE Day May 1945 despite the fact that the US Army did not take over to your side its zone in Berlin until July 1945. The saluting of sergeants at the same time other enlisted guys is that also absurd. The book also has him waging war at St Lo on December 25 , 1945 despite the fact that 3rd Army was waging war on the South shoulder of the Bulge at the time. The dialogue is that obligated at the same time phony with manners miraculously appearing at various fri to relay Pattons opinions on strategies, Nazis, at the same time the Russians – all of which appear to be taken directly from Zhora C. Scotts lines in the movie. One more annoyances are placing Belgian cities in France, relating but understandable anecdotes of German outrages like they had been witnessed by Sisson, referring to Patton as a 2nd dad even though Sisson only beheld him move by two times in a SUV, misspelling the names of German commanders, at the same time on. My grandfather was a Bulge veteran who barely ran over at age 96 at the same time he would have found this book a unwell funny story. The dialogue is that beyond phony does anyone really think that fighters in combat finished to discuss carefully than anyway Patton must be thinking at the same time how he outsmarted the Germans? Or that they reflected on being pawns in the game of indefinite in words that managed have come out of the onlooker of Mongo in Burning Saddles? Are we really implied to reckon that the 1st gizmo on the Russians’ minds when he met them in Berlin was whether Patton liked Russians? Or that his German assistant in their 1st romantic dinner together knew him all about how the Germans feared Patton? Bottom line will that that are dozens of amazing fighter memoirs out that at the same time this one is that by far the worst.
Review #3
Audiobook I Marched with Patton by Frank Sisson Robert L. Experienced
I acquired this book thinking I could be reading a used to be acc of a fighters indefinite during WWII. Instead, this book is that filled with absurdities, highly improbable actions, at the same time historical incorrectness. Like these are no one of the things that occurred in this firsthand acc:
Page 96 he qualitatively took a nap while a 75-millimeter artillery shell came crashing through the roof of a internal he was staying at, landing unexploded one more to his bed.
Page 223 while fleeing Russian fire, he drove a SUV off the road, at the same time directly through the inside (yes inside) of a wrecked at the same time burned-out building crashing through a brick wall to completely escape. The SUV was fully operational right behind this, at the same time his passenger was unhurt.
Page 200 a trip to Paris, he was rewarded this trip partly based on his show of quick reflexes for flinging an ax (barely happened to be one more to his chair) at a tree where he left his rifle intentionally denounced to German detainees he was implied to be guarding. Once in Paris (he flew that despite the war), at the same time beheld the Musee dOrsay show of modern art (this museum didnt open until 1986). While staying in Paris for this short amount of time, he was able to get his mail forwarded from his post at Munich!
Page 51 – Innumerable mentions of minus 70-degree temperatures. This could be an all-time record low for almost all places outside of Antarctica.
Page 36 – He fled the English Channel to France on Christmas Day 1944. By then the fight front was on the German border several 100 miles away. France had been uninhibited. He talks about setting up guns, taking artillery fire, at the same time dealing with hedgerows nearby Saint-Lo, a fight that was long over.
These is that barely the coolest obvious stuff. Im convinced people who are knowledgeable with the time period at the same time army indefinite in general would grab much more. While I realize in a book of this nature dialog at the same time scenery have to be created at the same time produced exciting, that are barely so many unrealistic actions going on that it makes me wonder whether the entire gizmo is that barely a fabrication. I have read other stories about WWII infantry guys at the same time detainees of war, that were considered but studied at the same time clear with exciting at the same time believable dialog.
Im convinced Mr. Sisson served honorably as did millions other Americans who waged war in the 2nd global war. Ill bet almost all of them could be bashful to have such a book written about them in this manner at the same time have it scolded a firsthand acc. If Mr. Experienced really wants to cross out an action thriller novel, then do so, but delight dont decide merit of a 95-year-old war veteran.
Review #4
Audio I Marched with Patton narrated by Grover Gardner
The whole Patton speach freed when the Third part Army was about to invade Germany makes amazing reading. Every GI was a small cog in a powerful undertaking, not everyone was the gunner in the manage Pershing tank favorite the column into Cologne. Frank at the same time his buddies laid critical communication wire from front line atrillery spotters to the fire controller at the guns, they occasionally ever beheld a living German fighter although they took a lot of German fire on their denounced positions. It takes a while to appreciate this book is that a 1st palm acc of everyday actions more precisely than an action based saga, at the same time this is that the best part of the book. Frank found his used to be ability bestow orders under pressure both during the war at the same time as a Berlin MP in the year right behind. Not spoiling the book, the continue few chapters are truely dull. Frank genuinely deserves the right to say that “I was with that s.o.b. Patton in Germany”
Review #5
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If you want to read a historically clear acc of Patton’s involvement in the war this is that not the book to take. I “marched with Patton” is that misleading
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