In March 1945 the Rhine River was the last great barrier to the heart of Germany. General George S. Patton of US 3rd Army and Field Marshall Bernard L. Montgomery were both desperate to cross the ...

THE MEMOIRS OF FIELD-MARSHAL MONTGOMERY (508 pp.)—Bernard Law Montgomery—World ($6)."Monkey" (his schoolboy name) Montgomery, who understandably likes to sign himself Montgomery of ...

D-Day, as Gen. Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery so eloquently declared to the Allied army, was such a confrontation.

After five days of news blackout, cautious Field Marshal Montgomery lifted the curtain a little. His British Second Army was making spectacular strides into the Westphalian plain along the hedge ...