(March 28, 2016 at 12:47 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(March 28, 2016 at 12:42 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote: [quote pid='1233049' dateline='1459049428']
*Bernard Law Montgomery was the Lord Ronnie Rust of British generalling, a man whose reputation and arrogance was far in excess of his actual ability.
He was a successful leader who won battles regularly. He had a different approach to the Americans who went at things hell for leather and threw resources at problems but he was no slouch. I would argue that your view is coloured by the side of the atlantic you sit on.
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Look up Market Garden some time. Montgomery was told that what he wanted to do would be a disaster without the proper preparations, yet he went ahead and did it anyway, simply because he wanted to burnish his reputation by being the first allied general across the Rhine.
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