There was, to be sure, a terrible temper, but as Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, a former subordinate and sometime critic of Eisenhower, said last week, “He had only to smile at you, and there ...

He added that the administration later brought in actor Robert Montgomery as a TV adviser but he “could do little to improve Eisenhower’s ability on, or interest in, the medium.” While the ...

"I believe Montgomery wanted to go on June 5" despite Stagg's prediction, Eisenhower said of the famously fractious British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, but Eisenhower stuck with Stagg's ...

Both Montgomery and Patton were dazzled by what seemed their individual opportunities, says Eisenhower. As Sir James Grigg (British Secretary of State for War, 1942-45) has written, Eisenhower had ...

Bernard "Monty" Montgomery served as a ground commander for Anglo-American forces under Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. His penciled battle plan for D-Day took up no more than ...

An enemy fighter plane exploding like a toy. ¶ The faces of Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery—faces heavy with power, craft, superhuman responsibility, humanly transfigured by the exhilaration ...

In fact, British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery asked Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, for help with food shortages in Belgium. The Battle of the Bulge had caused major damage to ...