One of the iconic moments in the fantastic, Academy Award winning movie Patton, comes when the titular general has vanquished his enemy in his first North African battle; standing on a high pass overlooking the battlefield, he triumphantly shouts: “Rommell, you magnificent bastard! I READ YOUR BOOK!” It’s a piece of Hollywood hokum; if he read a German general’s book about armoured warfare it…
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