Sublime

For Montgomery, given the horrendous British losses in the trench warfare of World War I, attrition was unthinkable. Instead, he preferred to keep the enemy off balance by maneuvering and then deliver a concentrated blow at a single point. Rather than conduct a broad-front offensive, Monty sought to breach the enemy line and exploit the breakthroug

George Patton often referred to Ike as “Divine Destiny.” The British—Brooke, Alexander, and Montgomery—never thought much of Eisenhower’s generalship but always welcomed his good luck. Napoléon also preferred lucky generals, and it was not long until fortuna came to Ike’s relief.

Lawrence not only helped lead the Arab Revolt but he also reflected on this group of irregular soldiers and their guerrilla campaign.166 Whereas other campaigns, such as those fought by the Irish or Boers, are remembered through a variety of memoirs, government reports, and histories both official and scholarly, Lawrence’s own writings were—and in

Eisenhower wrote in 1948: “Allied unity, and the ways and means of attaining it, constituted the principal war lesson”—as Fox Conner had told him it would be. In a 1967 interview with historian Stephen Ambrose, Eisenhower credited his many discussions with Conner, as well as his own reading on the history of coalition warfare, as the keys to his su

Fox Conner had long-recognized the importance of Allied “unity of action.”

Model was the first to recognize that Hitler’s orders would lead to the destruction of the German Army in France.