British Army officer (1887–1976)
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The British field marshal who turned the war in North Africa at El Alamein, then led Allied ground forces through D-Day and took the German surrender in 1945. Monty's meticulous planning made him indispensable; his abrasive confidence made him impossible.
Bernard Montgomery took a sniper's bullet through the lung at Ypres in 1914, survived, and spent the rest of the First World War climbing the staff ranks through Arras and Passchendaele. Between the wars he moved through battalion and brigade commands until August 1942, when he took over the Eighth Army in the Western Desert. He led it through Sicily and Italy, then commanded all Allied ground forces for the first three months after the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944. His 21st Army Group fought through the rest of the North West Europe campaign — Operation Market Garden failed to cross the R…
Sourced, dated quotes from Bernard Montgomery
The United States has broken the second rule of war. That is: don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland in Asia. Rule One is, don't march on Moscow.
Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule.
Anyone who votes Labour ought to be locked up.
There were many reasons why we did not gain complete success at Arnhem. The following in my view were the main ones. First.
The British soldier is second to none in the communities of fighting men. Some may possess more élan, others may be better disciplined; but none excels him in all-round character.
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