Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1887-1976: A Selected Bibliography (Bibliographies of Battles and Leaders)

180 Pages·1999·8.76 MB·English

by  Colin F. Baxter

Field Marshal Bernard
Law Montgomery,
1887-1976
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Field Marshal Bernard
Law Montgomery,
1887-1976
A Selected Bibliography
Compiled by
Colin E Baxter
Bibliographies of Battles and Leaders, Number 23
Myron J. Smith, Jr., Series Adviser
GREENWOOD PRESS
Westport, Connecticut • London
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Baxter, Colin F., 1942-
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1887-1976 : a selected
bibliography / compiled by Colin F. Baxter.
p. cm.—(Bibliographies of battles and leaders, ISSN
1056-7410 ; no. 23)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-313-29119-5 (alk. paper)
1. Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount,
1887-1976 Bibliography. 2. Great Britain—History, Military—20th
century Bibliography. I. Title. II. Series.
Z8591.3.B39 2000
[DA69.3.M56]
016.355,0092—dc21 99-33434
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.
Copyright © 1999 by Colin F. Baxter
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-33434
ISBN: 0-313-29119-5
ISSN: 1056-7410
First published in 1999
Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
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Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this book complies with the
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The author and publisher acknowledge Viscount Montgomery
of Alamein for his gracious permission to reprint excerpts from
Field Marshal Montgomery's Memoirs.
Contents
Series Foreword by Myron J. Smith, Jr. ix
Preface xi
PART I: NARRATIVE AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL SURVEY 1
1. Historical Background 3
2. Chronology 11
3. Sources for Research on Field Marshal Montgomery 15
Principal Research Collections 15
Bibliographies and Guides 17
Biographical Dictionaries 18
Encyclopedias and Collections 19
Memorabilia 20
4. The Making of a General 21
Family Background 21
World War I 23
Between the Wars 25
Hitler's War Begins 27
vi Contents
Dunkirk 29
The Dieppe Raid 32
5. El Alamein to Tunis 37
The Montgomery-Auchinleck Controversy 37
Alam Haifa 41
The Battle of El Alamein (October 23-November 4, 1942) 42
Pursuit 45
On to Tripoli 45
Desert Victory 46
The End in North Africa 46
The Flying Fortress Affair 48
6. Sicily to the Sangro 49
Return to England 49
The Invasion of Sicily 50
"I Should Run Huskyr 52
The Battle for Sicily 52
Patton and the "Race" to Messina 55
Evacuation 56
The Canadians 58
The Italian Campaign 58
Salerno 59
7. The Normandy Campaign 63
Contents vii
Preparations 63
The Battle of Normandy 69
The Battle of the Books 70
Operation Goodwood 74
Official Histories 77
The Ongoing Debate over Normandy 77
A "Flawed Instrument"? 79
Nigel Hamilton 80
Carlo D'Este 81
Monty and the Air Marshals 82
The Falaise Gap 85
8. From the Seine to the Baltic 89
Single-thrust versus Broad-front strategy 89
Montgomery's Proposal 89
Eisenhower's strategy 93
The Historical Debate 96
Operation Market-Garden 100
Prelude to the Ardennes 106
The Battle of the Bulge 108
The Command Issue 111
The Press Conference 113
The Final Wartime Controversies 114
viii Contents
9. The Post- War Years 119
The Occupation of Germany 119
Lucien Trueb 121
Chief of the Imperial General Staff 122
Emanuel Shinwell 123
IsingtonMill 124
Overseas Tours 125
International Soldier 125
The Memoirs 126
The Last Years 127
PART II: BIBLIOGRAPHY 131
Index 161
Series Foreword
The Greeks at Thermopylae, the Crusades, the Armada campaign, Trafalgar,
Verdun, Gettysburg, El Alamein, Pork Chop Hill, Khe Sahn, the Falklands, and
"Desert Storm" are only a few of the many campaigns and battles, large and small,
which have been fought down through the ages. Of course, each of these
operations had leaders ranging in quality from Leonidas at Thermopylae to the
group think of Vietnam and all featured diverse strategy, tactics, and weaponry. It
appears to be mankind's unhappy lot that war has been and apparently will for
sometime continue to be a growth industry, despite centuries of horror-filled
record-keeping andpreventative lessons available for the learning. With only a few
exceptions, monographic bibliographies of individual battles and leaders (our series
title admittedly, is borrowed from the famous American Civil War history),
campaigns and weapons have not been compiled previously. Contributors to this
series while thus breaking, new around have also constructed works suitable for
wide general audiences. These tools may profitably be employed at every level
from high school through graduate university and by the casual researcher/buff as
well as the dedicated scholar.
Each volume begins with a narrative overview of the topic designed to place its
subject within the context of specific wars, societies, and times; this introduction
evaluates the significance of the leader, battle, or technology under study. Each
work points to key archival and document collections as well as printed primary
and secondary sources. Citations are numbered, allowing easy access via the
index(es). Individual volumes may present discussion of their citations in styles
ranging from bibliographical essays to individually annotated entries and some
titles provide chronologies and suitable appendix(es).
It is my hope as editor that these bibliographies of battles and leaders will
enable broad audiences to select and work with the best items available within
literature and to benefit from the wisdom of some of today's leading military
scholars.
Myron J. Smith, Jr., Series Adviser
Tusculum College
Greeneville, Tennessee