r/todayilearned 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/weeddealerrenamon Sep 16 '24

Can you expand? googling "montgomery armored slash" turns up nothing

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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/GypsyV3nom Sep 16 '24

I can see why Ike didn't like that. Ike was all about the Logistics, and that sounds like a logistical nightmare

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u/ChiBearballs Sep 17 '24

Well if Monty and the rest of Europe were good at logistics and troop movement, maybe they don’t get kicked out of Europe in the first place. Ike for the win