Author: Brian Montgomery
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780094595606
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein has attracted the attention of historians over the last 70 years but, despite this coverage, views of his character remain controversial and contradictory. His younger brother Brian enters the fray with this revealing book examining the background of this legendary military commander.
A Field-marshal in the Family
Author: Brian Montgomery
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780094595606
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein has attracted the attention of historians over the last 70 years but, despite this coverage, views of his character remain controversial and contradictory. His younger brother Brian enters the fray with this revealing book examining the background of this legendary military commander.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780094595606
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein has attracted the attention of historians over the last 70 years but, despite this coverage, views of his character remain controversial and contradictory. His younger brother Brian enters the fray with this revealing book examining the background of this legendary military commander.
A Field Marshal in the Family
Author: Brian Montgomery
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848844255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein has attracted the attention of countless historians over the last 70 years but, despite this coverage, views of his character remain controversial and contradictory. His younger brother Brian, himself a successful soldier, enters the fray with this charming and revealing book examining the background of this legendary military commander. He provides a fascinating account of the influences of Montys family genes together with a wealth of unknown details about his career. His grandfather, Sir Robert Montgomery, played a key role in crushing the Indian Mutiny and his adventures have intriguing parallels with those of Montys two generations later. Dean Farrar, his maternal grandfather, was a powerful Victorian educational and religious figure (Headmaster of Marlborough College and Dean of Canterbury) and author of the iconic Eric, or Little by Little. The author examines in the most entertaining and frank manner Montys idiosyncratic character traits; his opposition to tradition, his Nelsonian approach to rules and regulations, his ruthlessness and determination and his unfashionable views on the absolute necessity for self publicity and the most intensive training to get the maximum from his subordinates, down to the most junior levels.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848844255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein has attracted the attention of countless historians over the last 70 years but, despite this coverage, views of his character remain controversial and contradictory. His younger brother Brian, himself a successful soldier, enters the fray with this charming and revealing book examining the background of this legendary military commander. He provides a fascinating account of the influences of Montys family genes together with a wealth of unknown details about his career. His grandfather, Sir Robert Montgomery, played a key role in crushing the Indian Mutiny and his adventures have intriguing parallels with those of Montys two generations later. Dean Farrar, his maternal grandfather, was a powerful Victorian educational and religious figure (Headmaster of Marlborough College and Dean of Canterbury) and author of the iconic Eric, or Little by Little. The author examines in the most entertaining and frank manner Montys idiosyncratic character traits; his opposition to tradition, his Nelsonian approach to rules and regulations, his ruthlessness and determination and his unfashionable views on the absolute necessity for self publicity and the most intensive training to get the maximum from his subordinates, down to the most junior levels.
A Field-marshal in the Family
Author: Brian Montgomery
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780800826352
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780800826352
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
War Diaries 1939 1945
Author: Alan Brooke Alanbrooke (Viscount)
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520239029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
The first complete and unexpurgated publication of the diaries of Lord Alanbrooke, who during World War II was Chief of the Imperial General Staff of the British Empire and Churchill's most prominent advisor -- and rival.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520239029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
The first complete and unexpurgated publication of the diaries of Lord Alanbrooke, who during World War II was Chief of the Imperial General Staff of the British Empire and Churchill's most prominent advisor -- and rival.
Alan Brooke—Churchill's Right-Hand Critic
Author: Andrew Sangster
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1612009697
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This new biography of Churchill’s top WWII advisor is “an excellent book for anyone interested in military leadership” (The NYMAS Review). Voted the greatest Briton of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill has long been credited with almost single-handedly leading his country to victory in World War II. But without Alan Brooke, a skilled tactician, at his side the outcome might well have been disastrous. Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, more often than not served as a brake on some of Churchill’s more impetuous ideas. However, while Brooke’s diaries reveal his fury with some of Churchill’s decisions, they also reveal his respect and admiration for the wartime prime minister. In return Churchill must surely have considered Brooke one of his most difficult subordinates—but later wrote that he was “fearless, formidable, articulate, and in the end convincing.” As CIGS, Brooke was integral to coordination between the Allied forces, and so had to wrestle with the cultural strategy clash between the British and Americans. Comments in his diaries offer up his opinions of both his British and American military colleagues—his negative assessments of Mountbatten’s ability, and acerbic comments on the difficult character of de Gaulle and the weaknesses of Eisenhower. Conversely, he was clearly overindulgent in the face of Montgomery’s foibles. Brooke was often seen as a stern and humorless figure, but a study of his private life reveals a little-seen lighter side, a lifelong passion for birdwatching, and abiding love for his family. The two tragedies that befell his immediate family were a critical influence on his life. Andrew Sangster completes this new biography with a survey of the way various historians have assessed Brooke, explaining how he has lapsed into seeming obscurity in the years since his crucial part in the Allied victory in World War II.
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1612009697
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This new biography of Churchill’s top WWII advisor is “an excellent book for anyone interested in military leadership” (The NYMAS Review). Voted the greatest Briton of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill has long been credited with almost single-handedly leading his country to victory in World War II. But without Alan Brooke, a skilled tactician, at his side the outcome might well have been disastrous. Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, more often than not served as a brake on some of Churchill’s more impetuous ideas. However, while Brooke’s diaries reveal his fury with some of Churchill’s decisions, they also reveal his respect and admiration for the wartime prime minister. In return Churchill must surely have considered Brooke one of his most difficult subordinates—but later wrote that he was “fearless, formidable, articulate, and in the end convincing.” As CIGS, Brooke was integral to coordination between the Allied forces, and so had to wrestle with the cultural strategy clash between the British and Americans. Comments in his diaries offer up his opinions of both his British and American military colleagues—his negative assessments of Mountbatten’s ability, and acerbic comments on the difficult character of de Gaulle and the weaknesses of Eisenhower. Conversely, he was clearly overindulgent in the face of Montgomery’s foibles. Brooke was often seen as a stern and humorless figure, but a study of his private life reveals a little-seen lighter side, a lifelong passion for birdwatching, and abiding love for his family. The two tragedies that befell his immediate family were a critical influence on his life. Andrew Sangster completes this new biography with a survey of the way various historians have assessed Brooke, explaining how he has lapsed into seeming obscurity in the years since his crucial part in the Allied victory in World War II.
A FIELD-MARSHALL IN THE FAMILY;A PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY..
Author: Brian Montgomery
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montgomery, Bernard Law
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montgomery, Bernard Law
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Monty, a Life in Photographs
Author: Brian Montgomery
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Memoirs and correspondence of field-marshal viscount Combermere, from his family papers, by Mary viscountess Combermere and W.W. Knollys
Author: Mary Woolley Stapleton Cotton (viscountess Combermere.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Field Marshal
Author: Daniel Allen Butler
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1612002978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally back in France again, at Normandy in 1944, he proved himself a master of armored warfare, running rings around a succession of Allied generals who never got his measure and could only resort to overwhelming numbers to bring about his defeat. And yet for all his military genius, Rommel was also naive, a man who could admire Adolf Hitler at the same time that he despised the Nazis, dazzled by a Führer whose successes blinded him to the true nature of the Third Reich. Above all, he was the quintessential German patriot, who ultimately would refuse to abandon his moral compass, so that on one pivotal day in June 1944 he came to understand that he had mistakenly served an evil man and evil cause. He would still fight for Germany even as he abandoned his oath of allegiance to the Führer, when he came to realize that Hitler had morphed into nothing more than an agent of death and destruction. In the end Erwin Rommel was forced to die by his own hand, not because, as some would claim, he had dabbled in a tyrannicidal conspiracy, but because he had committed a far greater crime he dared to tell Adolf Hitler the truth. In Field Marshal historian Daniel Allen Butler not only describes the swirling, innovative campaigns in which Rommel won his military reputation, but assesses the temper of the man who finally fought only for his country, and no dark depths beyond.
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1612002978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally back in France again, at Normandy in 1944, he proved himself a master of armored warfare, running rings around a succession of Allied generals who never got his measure and could only resort to overwhelming numbers to bring about his defeat. And yet for all his military genius, Rommel was also naive, a man who could admire Adolf Hitler at the same time that he despised the Nazis, dazzled by a Führer whose successes blinded him to the true nature of the Third Reich. Above all, he was the quintessential German patriot, who ultimately would refuse to abandon his moral compass, so that on one pivotal day in June 1944 he came to understand that he had mistakenly served an evil man and evil cause. He would still fight for Germany even as he abandoned his oath of allegiance to the Führer, when he came to realize that Hitler had morphed into nothing more than an agent of death and destruction. In the end Erwin Rommel was forced to die by his own hand, not because, as some would claim, he had dabbled in a tyrannicidal conspiracy, but because he had committed a far greater crime he dared to tell Adolf Hitler the truth. In Field Marshal historian Daniel Allen Butler not only describes the swirling, innovative campaigns in which Rommel won his military reputation, but assesses the temper of the man who finally fought only for his country, and no dark depths beyond.
Memoirs and Correspondence of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, G. C. B., Etc., from His Family Papers
Author: Viscountess Mary Woolley Gibbings Cotton Combermere
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marshals
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marshals
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description