BFBS Forces News presents ‘Great British Battle Commanders’ hosted by Professor Michael Clarke, Sitrep’s defence analyst, assessing the leadership and strategy of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery with the former Chief of the Army and former Chief of the Defence Staff, General Lord Richards. The interview is recorded in the D-Day Map Room at Southwick House, outside Portsmouth, which was the nerve centre for Operation Overlord.
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General Dwight D Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander 1944-1945
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Deputy Supreme Commander to Eisenhower
Field Marshal Herbert Plumer, British First World war general
Field Marshal Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1944
Field Marshal Lord John Gort, Commander of British forces in France, 1940
Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, British general
Field Marshal Harold Alexander, British general
General George S. Patton, US general
General Frederick E. Morgan, British general
General Omar N. Bradley, US general
Field Marshal William J. Slim, British general
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