Reading Richard Rohmer

I'm back from a week at the Jersey Shore and I find that you guys have posted a lot of great stuff about Patton's Gap - much more than I would have expected.  Congratulations all around.

Now about the book:  "...founded on years of painstaking research" promises Ivor Williams in his back cover blurb.  Brian, I was happy to see your posts that essentially call the book for precisely lacking that very thing.   The sources cited and quoted were more an attempt to praise Patton and bury Montgomery so that the final line of the book carried some sense of shock.  As if you couldn't see that coming.

Brian: your point about the title bothered me the whole time I was reading - to make it work it should have ended with a question mark, but since no one else seems to have ever referred to it as Patton's Gap, even that wouldn't have made sense.

Chris: halfway through the book I started doing some searching to find out more about the Falaise Gap - was it really such a contentious part of the Normandy Invasion?  No one else thinks so - I couldn't find anything outside this book that makes such a deal out of it.  Not that this is the first book to try and stake a claim for a historical moment and sell a new take on it, but in this case it just added to the dullness.

I have nothing much more to add, since you both said it so well.