The Memoirs of Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G.

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HISTORY
THE MEMOIRS OF
FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY
". . . perhaps the most celebrated Englishman, beside Churchill, of the twentieth century. . . his Memo/rs, like Churchill's/WyEa/'/yL/fe, abound with humor. His sharp gray-blue eyes were quick to spot the incongruities and absurdities of life, particularly his own . . ."
—Nigel Hamilton, Monty: The Making of a General
Historical opinion on Field Marshal Montgomery still has not stabilized more than five years since his death. Eisenhower thought him vain and intractable; Rommel commended him for the strategic brilliance that won the battle for Alamein, and by extension the war in North Africa; to Whitehall he was an ambitious and outspoken nuisance; to the world one of the lasting heroes of World War II.
In his Memoirs Montgomery finally had a chance to tell his side of history and let others judge his actions as he judged them himself— candidly, unceremoniously, meticulously. A complicated and emotional man who was nonetheless... Tovább

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HISTORY
THE MEMOIRS OF
FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY
". . . perhaps the most celebrated Englishman, beside Churchill, of the twentieth century. . . his Memo/rs, like Churchill's/WyEa/'/yL/fe, abound with humor. His sharp gray-blue eyes were quick to spot the incongruities and absurdities of life, particularly his own . . ."
—Nigel Hamilton, Monty: The Making of a General
Historical opinion on Field Marshal Montgomery still has not stabilized more than five years since his death. Eisenhower thought him vain and intractable; Rommel commended him for the strategic brilliance that won the battle for Alamein, and by extension the war in North Africa; to Whitehall he was an ambitious and outspoken nuisance; to the world one of the lasting heroes of World War II.
In his Memoirs Montgomery finally had a chance to tell his side of history and let others judge his actions as he judged them himself— candidly, unceremoniously, meticulously. A complicated and emotional man who was nonetheless thoroughly a soldier, he endured an unhappy childhood, the painful early death of his wife, and fifty years of continuous Army service, most of it at war. From Sandhurst, to World War I, to the Irish "troubles" ("In many ways far worse than the Great War"), to Dunkirk, North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Palestine, and the Cold War, Montgomery lived in conflict, determining events and here reflecting on them. No better record of his decades of accomplishment and his influential ideas exists than these Memoirs, a basic historical document of our century and a fascinating autobiography of a dominant, near-tragic figure. Vissza