German commanders did not see Bernard Montgomery as a brilliant or daring battlefield gambler. In many ways, that was exactly ...

Montgomery, commonly referred to as "Monty," initially earned distinction during World War II due to his highly effective leadership of the British Eighth Army in North Africa. There, Montgomery was ...

War has often been likened to a grand chess match, with generals maneuvering armies across the battlefield as if they were pieces on a board. Nowhere did that image feel more fitting than in North ...

Bernard Law Montgomery is an abstemious, godly and implacable man. With the zeal of the godly he went to work. Hour after hour, for twelve days, his Eighth Army had surged against every foot of Rommel ...

Based on Nigel Hamilton's definitive three-volume life of General Montgomery, concentrating on Monty's World War II years. siris_sil_464502 ...