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Churchill and the Montgomery Myth (Paperback)
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Churchill and the Montgomery Myth (Paperback)
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List price R377
Loot Price R358
Discovery Miles 3 580
You Save R19 (5%)
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This is perhaps the most revealing case history of the politics of
modern warfare ever set down. It is a story of a time when image
making and public relations took precedence over strategy at the
cost of thousands of lives. It is the story of the distortion of
history and the promulgation of questionable glory. By August 1942,
disaster had struck Great Britain in every theater of war,
Singapore had fallen; Crete was gone; the Egyptians were hammering
at Egypt. The British Navy and Air Force were being repulsed, and
Churchill wrote: "I should have then vanished from the scene and
the harvest would have been ascribed to my belated disappearance."
The shadow of becoming a second class power was already falling on
Britain, and Churchill and his generals were about to be eclipsed
by Roosevelt and the strength of America. Churchill was desperate
for victory and a glamorous hero. General Auchinleck, commander of
Britain's Eighth Army, had already fought a successful battle at El
Alamein. But Churchill needed something more theatrically effective
than what Auchinleck could provide. SO he set the propaganda
machinery working to obliterate that victory. Auchinleck was sacked
and replaced by Montgomery. Although Rommel was by this time a very
sick man with a weakened army, the myth of the Desert Fox was
revived as well. And the second Battle of El Alamein, the one
recorded in the history books, was launched. Every man played his
part well, including the public relations staff, General
Montgomery's personal photographers, the moving picture teams, and
those who fell in battle. This is a fascinating book, not just for
buffs of military history, but for anyone concerned with how a war
is really run in an age of propaganda.
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