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Legends of War is a turn-based strategy video game series created in 2010 by the Spanish development company Enigma Software Productions. The series is for PSP, PS3, Xbox 360, PC and PS Vita, and is set in different historical time periods and wars through the point of view of notable military figures.
In the early 1970s, well-known family game designer Sid Sackson turned his hand to wargames, and with Bob Champer, designed The Major Battles and Campaigns of General George S. Patton, which was released by RGI in 1973.
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General is a book written by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard about the final year of World War II and the death of General George Patton, specifically whether it was an accident or an assassination.
As a result of General George S. Patton's (George C. Scott) decision to use former Nazis to help reconstruct post-World War II occupied Germany (and publicly defending the practice), General Dwight Eisenhower (Richard Dysart) removes him from that task and reassigns him to supervise "an army of clerks" whose task is to write the official history of the U.S. military involvement in World War II.
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During his career, Blumenson authored 17 works on the military history of World War II in North Africa and Europe. His works on Patton, The Patton Papers and Patton: The Man behind the Legend, 1885–1945 were acclaimed. Blumenson's final work was published in 2001. Blumenson died on April 15, 2005, in Washington, D.C. [6]
Patton's 3rd Army, subtitled "The Lorraine Campaign", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1980 that simulates the Battle of Metz, a portion of the U.S. Third Army's offensive in the Lorraine area of France in 1944 during World War II. It was the first game in SPI's "Victory in the West" series.
Patton was made a central figure in an elaborate phantom army deception scheme, and the Germans believed he was in Dover preparing the—fictitious—First United States Army Group for an invasion of the Pas de Calais. [12] [13] Patton frequently kept his face in a scowl he referred to as his "war face". [14]