soc.history.war.world-war-ii

William Black wrote:

> Montgomery was certainly difficult to get on with but the people who he
> worked for, and who worked directly for him, seem to have had a reasonably
> high opinion of him.

Some he got along with well enough, others not.

As Hal put it, these people came in a variety of sizes, flavors etc.

Everybody seems to have decided that he was a competent general, how
good he was being debatable. Note the lack of an easy yardstick to
assess competence, particularly in one's superior.

> The view of him held by a sergeant in the US Army of the day of the are of
> little interest to anyone.

It is of interest to me.

The view of him held by US troops of the day is a historical data
point.

That doesn't mean that this view was correct, nor did Hal imply that
it was a more correct view than that of Montgomery's biographers who
had access to a greater range of materials, but it's part of the
picture.


LC