I am a military historian of sorts and have posted on this site from the 75th anniversary of the drops on Normandy from the DZ where my father landed.
https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=547740&page=1

These three books are the best I've ever read on the personalities of the leaders of the West in Europe in WWII. Read them and understand what Ike had to put up with.
http://liberationtrilogy.com

And Le Renaud, A lot of ULTRA intelligence people claim they predicted the Bulge offensive. They did not. There is not one Brit or American G-2 who did.

It's funny, in the late 1950's - early 1960's BBC put on a series that was carried on US TV with Monty lecturing about how great he was and how bad Ike was and how his pencil thrust into Germany would have won the war in 4 months. In 1962 I suggested this argument in a history class at University...I'm ashamed of that now.

As for Ike being a "Field General," he took over in 1944 after Monty began agitating for that position. He ran the Bulge counter-offensive. And Patton "sensed" nothing before the German attach began..but he did sense the emergency and started turning 3rd Army north almost immediately


Last edited by Argo44; 12/27/20 02:22 AM.
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