Ladislas Farago

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Ladislas Farago (1906-1980) was a journalist who published a number of popular books on history and espionage, especially concerning the World War II era.

He was the author of an acclaimed biography of George Patton and received a screen writing credit for the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! Some of his other work (for example, a book in which he claimed to have located Martin Bormann alive in South America in the early 1970s) was perhaps less reliable.

He was born in Hungary in 1906 and came to the United States in 1937. During World War II, he worked for U.S. Naval Intelligence. There, among other things, he wrote statements that were broadcast to the crews of German U-boats in an attempt to induce them to surrender. He died in 1980.

His son, John M. Farago, is a Professor of Law at the City University of New York.