The Mothering of Montgomery

John Keegan

  • Monty: The Making of a General, 1887-1942 by Nigel Hamilton
    Hamish Hamilton, 871 pp, £12.00, June 1981, ISBN 0 241 10583 8
  • The War between the Generals: Inside the Allied High Command by David Irving
    Allen Lane, 446 pp, £9.95, June 1981, ISBN 0 7139 1344 4

On the amalgamation of Woolwich and Sandhurst after the Second World War to form the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 12 new companies were formed, bearing the names of British victories. Four were redcoat triumphs, four First World War battles, four Second World War campaigns. Among the latter was Alamein and it became an annual Alamein Company event for the victor himself to visit, dine with the cadets and afterwards address them in their ante-room.

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