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Cathal J. Nolan, Executive Director of the IHI and Associate Professor of History at Boston University, will give a short talk on Allied and Axis commanders as portrayed in the film "Patton." Then the film will be shown in its entirety. Does the film accurately convey the relative importance and skill of Patton and Montgomery as field commanders? How did stiff relationships and rivalries at the top affect the conduct of the war? What did Omar Bradley really think of his fellow Allied generals? Was Eisenhower seen by his peers as the remarkable Supreme Commander that popular history still portrays him to be? Or was he seen as challenged and even incompetent outside the political sphere? Rommel is popularly seen in the West as a superior battlefield opponent. How was he viewed by his fellow German generals? |
