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Author Name: Richard Lamb
Title: Montgomery in Europe 1943-45: Success or Failure?
Binding: Green Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Size: 8vo
Publisher: London Buchan & Enright 1983
ISBN Number: 0907675042 / 9780907675044
Seller ID: 002951
472pp., 24 b/w illus. 8 maps, sources, biblio. Minor bumping to extremities, inked date to ffep., unclipped dj edgeworn, rubbed. 'Throughout his career, Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein was the centre of controversies that rage to this day. Against his brilliant D-Day landings and other successes must be set the delays in Italy and Normandy, the partial failure to close the Falaise Gap, his spectacular inability to get on with the American commanders and, most grevous of all, the tragic debacle at Arnhem. Yet, incrediby, the inside story of Montgomery's conduct of the European campaigns has never been told in full before.Now the Public Record Office has disgorged its secrets. Using these and other archives -many of them unpublished - together with the views of Montgomery's principal colleagues still alive, Richard Lamb has pieced together the evidence needed for a definitive judgement on Montgomery's successes and failures. Much of the materila has never been revealed, shedding light not only on the Field-Marshals controversial personality, but also on the Allied feuds and internecine quarrels that led to Russia taking so large a slice of Europe.This is not another interminable biography spotlighting the quirks of the Field Marshals life and character; rather it is an authoritative verdict on Montgomery's performance as Britains leading commander in the vital European campaigns, and one that also assesses the often temperamental reactions of others - notably Alanbrooke and Eisenhower - during the moments of crisis.' [47]
WW2 HISTORY MILITARY
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