Two Field Marshals Two Wars

J. P. McFadden

We have now the personal account of two more famous warriors, England’s Field-Marshal Montgomery and Germany’s Field-Marshal von Manstein. Straight off, these must be counted important contributions to the still-unfolding account of World War II. Happily, they also make absorbing reading, for seldom have two lifelong soldiers—who, in the same war, exercised similar commands and attained the same rank—presented the reader with more varied fare.