In April 1939, he was given command of the Third Division, part of the British ... of 21st Army Group. Montgomery bitterly resented this, although he was promoted to field marshal by way of ...

The British were able to quell most of the resistance in the Western parts of Mt Kenya, but on the Meru front, Field Marshal Mwariama’s forces could not be stopped by the colonial army.

In September 1944, Montgomery was made a field marshal — the highest rank in the British Army. The war was not all victories for Montgomery, however. He suffered his worst defeat in battle ...

Field Marshal is a new biography by the British author Daniel Allen Butler ... Some examples: at Caporetto the Fourteenth Army (p. 67) which, had a number of Austro-Hungarian and German mountain units ...

Four months after the Allies had landed at Normandy, the German Army was rapidly retreating from France. British Field Marshal Montgomery's audacious plan to drive deep into the heart of ...