Bernard Montgomery
 Bernard Montgomery      (officer) | |
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| Born | 17 November 1887 Kennington, Surrey, England |
| Died | 24 March 1976 (Age 88) Alton, Hampshire, England |
| Alma mater | The King's School (Canterbury), St Paul's School (London), Sandhurst |
Field Marshal 'Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who participated in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War.
Quotations
“The next war on land will be very different from the last one, in that we shall have to fight it in a different way. In reaching a decision on that matter, we must first be clear about certain rules of war. Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 of war. It is: "Do not go fighting with your land armies in China". It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives, and an army fighting there would be engulfed by what is known as the Ming Bing, the people's insurgents.”
Bernard Montgomery (30 May 1962) [1]
Lucien Treub
Author Lucien Trueb, who was befriended by Monty as a boy, said that Montgomery wrote the love letter to him in the years after World War II. In his book Monty At Close Quarters, Trueb claims Montgomery had sexual relations with him and five other "young proteges."[2][3]
