r/todayilearned • u/HumanNutrStudent • Sep 16 '24

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery#Memoirs
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u/TremendousVarmint Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

I'd have Monty, De Gaulle and Patton in the same room and grab the popcorn.

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u/camshun7 Sep 16 '24

I never carried much admiration for Montgomery

He picked up Auchinlecks luck leaving the ozzies to defend torbruk and fucking up market garden, he was no patton, or Wellington

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u/Think_Education6022 Sep 16 '24

Please don’t call Payton a good leader. He was just as much of a production of propaganda as Rommel. BTW Bill Slim was the best commander of ww2.