Bernard Law Montgomery was born on 17 November 1887 in London. He was educated at St Paul's School and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and commissioned into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment ...

There, Montgomery was the first Allied general to inflict a decisive defeat ... Montgomery was made a field marshal — the highest rank in the British Army. The war was not all victories for ...

Montgomery’s swift and decisive action probably ensured the survival of British presence ... compelled the American general Omar Bradley to observe in his memoirs: ‘Had the pious teetotalling ...