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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.
In Jeff Shaara’s The Steel Wave, Omar Bradley and Bernard Montgomery prepare the land forces, George S. Patton waits for a command, and Erwin Rommel strengthens the Atlantic Wall while arguing with the German high command over how the beaches should be defended. In Christopher Nicole’s The Afrika Korps, Warrey’s grief and damaged marriage accompany a mission to influence Arab allies and pass intelligence to Montgomery, placing personal recklessness inside the strategic crisis created by the fall of Tobruk. Other novels featuring Bernard Montgomery include Jeff Shaara’s The Rising Tide, Griff Hosker’s Commando, Griff Hosker’s Conscript’s Call, James Holland’s Hellfire, and James Holland’s The Devil’s Pact.
In non-fiction, Bernard Montgomery is discussed in Giles Milton’s D-Day, John Man’s The D-Day Atlas, James Holland’s Together We Stand, James Holland’s Italy’s Sorrow, and James Holland’s The War in the West: A New History, Volume 2. Giles Milton’s D-Day approaches the subject through military command and battlefield decision-making, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and empire, conquest and resistance.
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Series
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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Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
