There, Montgomery was the first Allied general to inflict a decisive defeat ... Montgomery was made a field marshal — the highest rank in the British Army. The war was not all victories for ...

British Gen. Bernard "Monty" Montgomery served as a ground commander ... The museum also released a handwritten draft of the general's speech to Allied troops, which officers read aloud to the ...

Bernard Law Montgomery was born on 17 November 1887 in London. He was educated at St Paul's School and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and commissioned into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment ...

The tide turned in the Allies' favour at the Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942. British General Montgomery spent months building up an overwhelming advantage in men and armour, before launching ...

Montgomery’s swift and decisive action probably ensured the survival of British presence ... compelled the American general Omar Bradley to observe in his memoirs: ‘Had the pious teetotalling ...

There, Montgomery was the first Allied general to inflict a decisive defeat ... Montgomery was made a field marshal — the highest rank in the British Army. The war was not all victories for ...