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This book examines the postwar memoir fight over the broad front
versus the single thrust strategy, the Allied advance on the Rhine,
and the British call for a ground-forces commander other than
General Eisenhower. It traces the argument in the postwar memoirs
from 1946 through 1968 as well as the official histories of the
United States, Britain, and Canada to see what the documents really
said. What were men willing to say, what did they feel that they
had to cover up? Field Marshal Montgomery was deeply chagrined that
he had only one army group to command when he thought himself the
most professional commander in Northwest Europe. Montgomery had
little grasp of the intricacies of politics and could not
understand that American public opinion made it impossible for
Eisenhower to name him ground-forces commander. During the Battle
of the Bulge the U.S. President and Chief of Staff settled the
issue in Eisenhower's favor.
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