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Historical person
1887–1976
Bernard Montgomery was a British field marshal and one of the best-known Allied commanders of the Second World War. He led the Eighth Army at El Alamein, commanded major ground forces in Normandy and directed Operation Market Garden, while his methods and personality often caused friction with allies.
Bernard Montgomery also held the offices or ranks of 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, member of the House of Lords, and Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. Bernard Montgomery was born in Kennington, London, England and died in Alton, Hampshire, England.
Iain Gale’s Alamein places Bernard Montgomery at the head of the Eighth Army during the 1942 battle, but tells the turning point through commanders and ordinary soldiers on both sides of the minefields. Gordon Corrigan’s Montgomery reassesses the general’s career and the arguments around his method, personality and reputation. Max Hastings’s Overlord examines Montgomery’s role in planning and directing the Allied land campaign after D-Day, while James Holland’s Normandy ’44 follows the grinding attritional battle in which his armies had to hold and break German forces before the breakout from the beachhead. Hastings’s Armageddon then carries Montgomery into the final campaigns of 1944–45, where coalition command, the Rhine and the race into Germany exposed both the strengths and the limits of his cautious operational style.
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The Breaking Point series follows RAF fighter pilot Johnnie Shaux and mathematician-turned-military analyst Eleanor Rand, later Eleanor Shaux, through the successive years of the Second World War. Johnnie experiences the conflict from cockpits, airfields and operational units, while Eleanor works in headquarters where intelligence, logistics and strategy determine…
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Rifleman follows John Sharratt from wartime loss and conscription into the British Army during the Second World War. The sequence moves from the Blitz and training into the North African desert, where ordinary infantry experience the pressure of modern war, retreat, endurance and battle against Rommel’s forces.
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Combined Operations follows Tom Harsker and a commando unit through the Second World War and into Korea. The series begins with Britain under pressure in 1940 and moves through raids, occupied Europe, Dieppe, Sicily, D-Day, the Scheldt and the final advance into Germany before shifting to the Korean…
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The Jack Tanner series follows a sergeant in the fictional King’s Own Yorkshire Rangers through the British Army’s changing fortunes between 1940 and 1943. The Odin Mission begins during the retreat from Norway, Darkest Hour moves through the fall of France and Dunkirk, and Blood of Honour places…
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The World War II series traces the principal American campaigns from North Africa in 1942 to the end of the Pacific War in 1945. The Rising Tide covers North Africa and Sicily; The Steel Wave reconstructs D-Day and Normandy; No Less Than Victory follows the Battle of the…
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Originally published under the Alan Savage name, the Sword Series links members of the Brand and Warrey families through the conflicts of the 1930s and the Second World War. Harry Brand begins as a medical orderly in Ethiopia, and later volumes follow the fall of Singapore and Burma,…
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