“He was really a moron”. Which of Eisenhower’s generals said that, and who was he referring to. Stick around and I’ll tell you.

Tag words: Eisenhower; Rick Atkinson; The Guns at Last Light; Bradley; Carlo d’Este; US 12th Army Group; Lt. Gen. Courtney Hicks Hodges; Bedell Smith; Forrest Poague; American First Army; General George S Patton Jr; Geoffrey Perret; There’s a War to be Won; Hürtgen Forest; Life magazine; Wilderness campaign; Argonne campaign; Russell Weigley; Eisenhower’s Lieutenants; 28th Division; the Bloody Bucketeers; Field Marshal Walter Model; Hitler’s Fireman; Major General Dutch Cota; General Gerow; Shermans; Panthers; Panzer IV; Ernest Hemingway; Hank Cox; The General Who Wore Six Stars;

If you’ve ever read the Grimms Brothers fairy stories of Hansel and Gretel or Snow White, then you’ll already have a really good feel for the dark, sinister Hürtgen Forest that Omar Bradley’s First Army entered in September 1944. Journalist, William Walton, of Time/Life magazines told its story in the 1stJanuary 1945 issue of Life magazine, under the headline “A Gloomy German Woods Takes Its Place In U.S. History Beside The Wilderness And The Argonne.

This fight is essential in understanding the character and military skills of Omar N. Bradley, and I’m going to start to tell that story right now.

Tag words: Brothers Grimm; Hürtgen Forest; Omar Bradley; US First Army; Time/Life magazines; The Wilderness; The Argonne; David Irving The War Between the Generals; Hank Cox; The General Who Wore Six Stars; Rick Atkinson; The Guns at Last Light; Roer River; Russell Weigley; Eisenhower’s Lieutenants;

In this part your going to meet the man who defied Bradley and Patton in Brittany. A man as described by David Irving as literally having a mouthful of steel.

Tag words: Bradley; Patton; Brittany; Brest; David Irving; Troy Middleton; Russell Weigley; Eisenhower’s Lieutenants; Carlo d’Este; A Genius for War; Third Army; French Forces of the Interior; 6th Armored Division; Generalleutnant Hermann B. Ramcke; David Irving; The War Between the Generals; American VIII Corps; Montgomery; 29th Division; HMS Warspite; Lieutenant General William H. Simpson; US Ninth Army; Proverbs 16:18; Hank Cox; The General Who Wore Six Stars; Rick Atkinson; Liberation Trilogy; The Guns at Last Light;