![]() Chaplin fired him from a movie set because Buck wasn't enthusiastic enough in a scene, so Buck lets him have it with both barrels. ![]() He tells his readers to not forget that Chaplin was English and not a US citizen, who married his wife Oona when he was 54 and she was just 18, and Oona's father Eugene O'Neil was a "left-winger" who was friends with John Reid the communist. His men liked him well enough they didn't hold it against him.īut the book was just as much, if not more, about his right wing political beliefs.Īs a child he worked as an extra on film shoots (growing up in LA). It seems he was a very good and brave soldier who did crack to a degree sufficient that his commanders sent him back. Then he turns around and admits that he was firmly told to go get some rest and did so, eventually picking up orders from an old friend to stay in liberated Paris to organize sporting events for the troops. He disputes the portrayal in the HBO series, saying it is good to show how PTSD or mental breakdowns can occur, but claiming he didn't suffer one. who jumped behind enemy lines on D-day (and earned a Silver Star) and as part of Market Garden in he Low Countries, then had PTSD after Bastogne and was taken off the line. I'm watching Band of Brothers with my kids so I thought I'd read this biography I'd been wanting to get to for some time. But he grew into a paranoid right wing crazy old man. ![]() The guy was a war hero and accomplished prosecuting attorney. An interesting book-a look into the mind of Chuck Compton, a bona fide member of the Greatest Generation. ![]()
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