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 in ...

THE MEMOIRS OF FIELD-MARSHAL MONTGOMERY (508 pp.)—Bernard Law Montgomery—World ($6)."Monkey" (his schoolboy name) Montgomery, who understandably likes to sign himself Montgomery of ...

In September 1944, the Allies launched the largest airborne assault in history—Operation Market Garden. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s daring plan promised a swift end to the war by Christmas. But ...

Heidelberg, Germany, October, 1951: British Field Marshal Viscount Bernard Law Montgomery, deputy commander of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) and hero of the World War II Battle ...

While Churchill and Field Marshall Montgomery claimed Operation Market Garden to be 90% successful, there were a number of U.S. military leaders who expressed their criticism of Market Garden. Prince ...

In World War II, General Eisenhower and Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery did not see eye to eye on all things military, but they agreed that the best of the German generals they faced was Field ...