Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (/məntˈɡʌməri. æləmeɪn/; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty" and "The Spartan General", was a senior British Army.
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (/məntˈɡʌməri. æləmeɪn/; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty" and "The Spartan General", was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First World War and the Second World War. Montgomery first saw action in the First World War as a junior officer of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
Nigel Hamilton's award-winning Monty trilogy was hailed in both Britain and the United States as an extraordinary achievement
Nigel Hamilton's award-winning Monty trilogy was hailed in both Britain and the United States as an extraordinary achievement.
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Montgomery's relations with Churchill, de Gaulle, and Eisenhower give .
Montgomery's relations with Churchill, de Gaulle, and Eisenhower give Hamilton more than enough fodder for a grand tale that hews to the Great Man theory of history.
In The Full Monty, Nigel Hamilton is revising the three-volume biography he wrote two decades ag.
In The Full Monty, Nigel Hamilton is revising the three-volume biography he wrote two decades ago. The son of an Ulster bishop, Montgomery was decorated for gallantry as a young officer when he was wounded early in the first world wa. When I met Hamilton in the documents department of the Imperial War Museum a year or two ago and asked him what he was up to, he replied that he was at work reducing the massive three volumes of his official biography, published in 1981, 1983 and 1986, to one. Having, as he well knew, criticised them at the time as far too long and detailed, I jocularly remarked that he would find it difficult and wished him luck in the task.
Nigel Hamilton's Guide to Greenwich: A Personal Guide to the Buildings and Walks of One of England's Most Beautiful and Historic Areas - 1972. Monty: The Battles of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery - 1994. America Began at Greenwich - 1976. The Brothers Mann: The Lives of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1871–1950 and 1875–1955 - 1978. The Full Monty: Montgomery of Alamein 1887–1942 - 2001. Bill Clinton, An American Journey: Great Expectations - 2003. Montgomery of Alamein in Annabel and Neil Wenborn, eds British Military Greats - 2004.
Nigel Hamilton and Alistair Horne have placed two more entries in the burgeoning library of World War II. .
Nigel Hamilton and Alistair Horne have placed two more entries in the burgeoning library of World War II historiography as we celebrate the Air Force's 50th anniversary. Both authors took as their subject a man who perhaps was the Allies' most controversial general officer. Hamilton's entry is the condensed version of his official three-volume biography of Bernard Montgomery.
Nigel Hamilton's award-winning Monty trilogy was hailed in both Britain and the United States as an extraordinary achievement, "magisterial in its shape and scope, brilliantly woven, and a joy to read.