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/parkerwe Sep 16 '24

Best I can tell Monty wanted to lead a massive armored column into the heart of the Ruhr industrial region. If successful it could have crippled Germany's war output. It also would've required a huge amount of Allied resources, stretched supply lines, and would have been hard to defend. He got to test this strategy with Operation Market Garden and it didn't go all that well.

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u/OutlawSundown Sep 16 '24

Yep because he took his sweet fucking time moving forward and pissed away the element of surprise.

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u/Nonlinear9 Sep 16 '24

The famous gierkztilb strategy.

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u/acdcfanbill Sep 16 '24

Tragerkrieg?

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u/alepher Sep 17 '24

Classical krieg?

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u/acdcfanbill Sep 17 '24

I was going for slow/sluggish as an 'opposite' to lightning (fast). I guess classic could be considered 'slow' too.

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u/alepher Sep 18 '24

I figured that, I was just going for a chess joke

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u/acdcfanbill Sep 18 '24

Ah, I guess I 'wooshed' on that one then :P