MONTGOMERY – Unbeatable and Unbearable? With Professor Michael Clarke and General Lord Richards, former Chief of the Defence Staff.

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. Glossary for AudioGeneral Dwight D Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander 1944-1945Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Deputy Supreme Commander to EisenhowerField Marshal Herbert Plumer, British First World war generalField Marshal Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1944Field Marshal Lord John Gort, Commander of British forces in France, 1940Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, British generalField Marshal Harold Alexander, British general General George S. Patton, US generalGeneral Frederick E. Morgan, British generalGeneral Omar N. Bradley, US general Field Marshal William J. Slim, British general