Killing Patton
Rick Atkinson, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, told the progressive news organization that Patton died of complications following "a fender bender.""[4] Writing in The Washington Post, Richard Cohen criticized the book's "chaotic structure" and "considerable padding," calling the work a "clunky hagiography."'"[8] By contrast, Wes Vernon wrote in The Washington Times that "Killing Patton is rich in blow-by-blow accounts of some of the most significant battles of World War II, as well as of many off-battlefield lives of its primary movers whose personalities virtually come to life in this well-crafted narrative.Publishers Weekly subsequently pointed out that according to Nielsen BookScan, Killing Patton "was the fifth bestselling print book of 2014, behind The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul by Jeff Kinney, and Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth."[10] On November 24, 2015, National Geographic Channel and Scott Free Productions jointly announced the television adaptation of Killing Patton.