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03 Aug 2015 4:46 p.m. PST by Editor in Chief Bill
- Changed title from "The men behing Monty" to "The men behind Monty"
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Tango01 | 03 Aug 2015 3:37 p.m. PST |
Review by Mark Barnes. "This is a very readable account of the headquarters operated by Bernard Montgomery in North Africa, Italy and North-West Europe between 1942 and 1945. Monty is not everyone's cup of tea, at home or abroad. He had a bad habit of peeing off his friends and drawing attention to himself at the wrong moment. But he was an utterly professional soldier all his life with the clearest view of how to do things properly. History has been a bit of a fickle friend to him down the years but it is impossible to ignore his skill, his personality or his fastidiousness. Make no mistake, Monty was the real deal; but he was just too damned awkward as a person and his behaviour lost him friends. By the time he boarded HMS Faulknor to travel to Normandy, the Allies were ashore and Rommel's predicted Longest Day had passed. Even his detractors have to accept that his intervention in the planning for Overlord was both timely and vindicated. There has, it seems to me, been a lack of understanding of what the Anglo-Canadian role was immediately after D-Day. This was to draw the bulk of German armoured forces on to 21st Army Group while the Americans got themselves in a position to break out. Unfortunately for Monty, some random phase lines hurriedly drawn on a map by a member of his staff came to haunt Montgomery as his army struggled to take Caen. Alexander McKee called it the Anvil of Victory, but in reality the anvil were the British and Canadian infantry slaughtered in alarming numbers to the point where the British had to break up units to find replacements later in the campaign. The great John Keegan made this all clear in the classic Six Armies in Normandy, a must read for any student of the campaign…" Full review here link
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