| Show Portrays World War II British Battles Field Bernard L. Montgomery relives his colorful and successful World War II British command in an eight-part television series which premiers on tonight at 9 p.m. In in Montgomery will take viewers through the war from the first reversal of German and Italian forces in the deserts of North Africa to the surrender of the German forces in The film will cover the development through six major THE FIELD marshall will carefully explain the strategy of each of his campaigns prior to the showing of each sequence of in Now retired from active military Field Marshall Montgomery remains one of the most controversial figures in the Western His recent trips to Red China and the and the furor of his subsequent comments have placed him in the international The outspoken Montgomery spares few of the critics and other military commanders who disagreed with his military Almost in a boastful he speaks of the British successes under his British forces suffered no major setback under his Before Montgomery's arrival in the African the British Eighth Army had engaged in only a small series of attacks and was constantly defeated and forced to The demoralized British troops finally turned back the Nazi desert Field Marshall Rommel at Alem Haifa and defeated the Germans for the first time at Ala-mein under Montgomery's FOLLOWING an account of the battles of Alem Haifa and the field marshall will relate the battles of the invasion of Sicily and the Normandy the winter of 1944 in and the German surrender at Luneberg SPECIAL prologue has been prepared for American television in which Field Marshall Montgomery discusses his methods of In the series' he reviews the six campaigns with two former war Charles Collingwood and Richard |
