Ieuan Sant

Monty the Field Marshall by Nigel Hamilton ISBN 0-340-40985-9 PUBLISHED 1986

To my mind the existing Wiki article on the Battle of the Bulge is a very poor article and reprsents some poor scholarship by existing editors. One glaring omission is the the box showing the command structure of the allied generals, all but Monty have thier division listed opposite their name except Montgomery. At the height of the battle Montgomery commanded two armies consisting of 11 British and American divisions almost three times that of any other American general. Although General Eisenhower was the supreme allied commander he took only one important decision and that at the prompting of the British, i.e. The British Prime Minister at that time and the British CIGS and that was to separate the command structure North (Montgomery) and South (Bradley) Bradley commanded 3 divisions and Patton 3 divisions. In his book Nigel Hamilton points out the vital and battle winning contribution of Montgomery, admitted by American Generals under him and German Generals, opposing him. Montgomery is universally acknowledged to have been one of a small number of generals from the 2nd World war who made a vital and war making contribution, this does not show in any article about Montgomery in my opinion.

For example p.283 of Hamilton's book explains that Field Marshal Montgomery was was commanding 21st Army group and that group contained 9th US army. No mention of this is made in the command box, yet all the other US army generals are allocated their commands. Unless any one complains I shall add to that box that Montgomery commanded 21st Army Group during this period of the war.

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