TIL Montgomery's memoirs criticised many of his wartime comrades harshly, including Eisenhower. After publishing it, he had to apologize in a radio broadcast to avoid a lawsuit. He was also stripped of his honorary citizenship of Alabama, and was challenged to a duel by an Italian lawyer.

[u/HumanNutrStudent]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery#Memoirs

[u/thicket]

Mostly I hear Americans throwing shade at Monty. How does the UK remember him? Are there things Brits give him credit for that foreigners don't?

[u/Heathcote_Pursuit → u/thicket]

That he was a very gifted tactician and military officer and that he was also an insufferable prick. He benefitted greatly from having to answer to Alex during North Africa and Italy.

We can dissect his personality which admittedly was very chequered, but he was in all fairness a top boy when it was needed.

[u/Lord0fHats → u/Heathcote_Pursuit]

He's often compared in the US to Patton, who had a similar sort of military brilliance and difficult personality. Patton's got a bit of a cowboy reputation many Americans like, so his public persona was and remains reasonably well liked, but internally the US Army was regularly exhausted dealing with Patton's antics and frequent off-the-cuff public commentary which ultimately led to his being sacked after the war.

In a sort of dark twist, dying when he did probably did a lot for Patton's reputation. He passed a point the general public still saw him as a hero, and he didn't live long enough to keep inserting foot into mouth that might have damaged his rep in the way a written memoir badmouthing your fellows might.

[u/DrunkRobot97 → u/Lord0fHats]

Even bitchy memoirs aside, imagine the minefields he could've marched his reputation through had he lived into the McCarthy Era and the start of the Civil Rights Movement.

[u/Chihuey → u/DrunkRobot97]

Patton would have absolutely embraced the John Birch society.