1 - This will of course cause controversy but; Patton, unfortunately, was not "brilliant". He was an expert at a certain kind of warfare but nearly completely incompetant at another. Patton's expertise lay in exploitation and maneuver. When a battle was almost won and you wanted someone to make...
1 - Montgomery did not get his position by politically sucking up to Churchill. Churchill couldn't stand Montgomery on a personal level because Monty, not to put to fine a point on it, was an arsehole and Churchill wouldn't have allowed him to command if he had a viable alternative but he didn't...
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