She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

It is `` Defeat Into Victory '', by Field Marshal Viscount Slim.

Field Marshal Slim has abridged it for the benefit of `` those who, finding not so great an attraction in accounts of military moves and counter-moves, are more interested in men and their reactions to stress, hardship and danger ''.

The man whose reactions and conclusions get the most space is, of course, the Field Marshal himself.

Field Marshal Slim is striking in description, amusing in many anecdotes.

Before he could return to Burma, Field Marshal Slim had to rally the defeated remnants of a discouraged army and unite them with fresh recruits.

Commenting on these and other matters, Field Marshal Slim makes many frank and provocative remarks:

Field Marshal Slim is more impressed by the courage of Japanese soldiers than he is by the ability of their commanders.

Brooding about future wars, the Field Marshal has this to say: `` The Asian fighting man is at least equally brave ( as the white ), usually more careless of death, less encumbered by mental doubts, less troubled by humanitarian sentiment, and not so moved by slaughter and mutilation around him.

It is Field Marshal Montgomery's belief that in most Western countries about 60 per cent of the people do not really care about democracy or Christianity ; ;

* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

# Field Marshal ( Abbreviated: FM ) – O11.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is currently the only living holder of the rank of Field Marshal in the Australian Army.

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976 ), nicknamed " Monty " and the " Spartan General ", was a British Army officer.

The only forces immediately available for Vienna's defence were Prince Louis of Baden's force of 36, 000 stationed in the Lines of Stollhofen to watch Marshal Tallard at Strasbourg ; there was also a weak force of 10, 000 men under Field Marshal Count Limburg Styrum observing Ulm.

Two hours later the Duke, accompanied by the Dutch field commander Field Marshal Overkirk, General Daniel Dopff, and the Allied staff, rode up to Cadogan where on the horizon to the westward he could discern the massed ranks of the French army deploying for battle along the four mile ( 6. 4 km ) front.

Field Marshal George Hamilton 1666-1737 Earl of Orkney, by Martin Maingaud.

* Hughes, Matthew ( edited and selected ) ( 2004 ) Allenby in Palestine The Middle East Correspondence of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby June 1917 – October 1919 Publications of the Army Records Society Vol.

The Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Duke of Wellington's and Field Marshal von Blücher's triumph over Napoleon I of France | Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo

A Coalition of Anglo-Dutch and Prussian Armies under the Duke of Wellington and Field Marshal von Blücher defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Meanwhile the Thai government, under the pro-Japanese leadership of Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram, took advantage of its position and invaded Cambodia's western provinces.

* Polní Podmaršálek-Lieutenant Field Marshal ( used 1918-1920 )

In recognition of his senior position in the Allied command, on December 20, 1944 he was promoted to General of the Army, equivalent to the rank of Field Marshal in most European armies.

* Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Field Marshal, British Army

Her single-parent mother ( Betty Field ) is hoping Madge will marry Alan, which would thus raise both Madge and herself into the town's highest, respectable social circles.

Behind them stand, from the left, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Fleet Admiral Ernest King, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, General of the Army George Marshall, Major General Laurence S. Kuter, General Aleksei Antonov, Vice Admiral Stepan Kucherov, and Admiral of the Fleet Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov | Nikolay Kuznetsov.

Field Marshal Viscount Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial general Staff and co-chairman of the Anglo-US Combined Chiefs of Staff

He is the author of a number of written works on cricket, including Gower: The Autobiography with The Independent journalist Martin Johnson in 1992, David Gower: With Time to Spare with Alan Lee in 1995 and Can't Bat, Can't Bowl, Can't Field also with Johnson.

The Anglo-Irish were also represented among the senior officers of the British Army by men such as Field Marshal Lord Roberts, first honorary Colonel of the Irish Guards regiment, who spent most of his career in India ; Field Marshal Lord Gough who served under Wellington, himself a Wellesley born in Dublin to the Earl of Mornington, a prominent Anglo-Irish family in Dublin ; and in the 20th century Alan Brooke and Harold Alexander ( see also Irish military diaspora ).

Smart's account says that Montgomery prompted the move for " not being ruthless enough with his American subordinates " although Mead states that the initiative was taken by the CIGS Field Marshal Alan Brooke but Montgomery made no attempt to retain O ' Connor.

The 1st Light Cavalry Regiment, " Glorious Hussars of Junín "-Liberator of Perú formed a personal mounted guard to the Peruvian President, established by President Alan García Pérez in 1987, however by the Ministerial Resolution No 139-2012 / DE / EP of February 2, 2012, signed in the current government of Mr. Ollanta Humala Tasso, is approved and authorized the restoration of the Regiment of Cavalry " Field Marshal Domingo Nieto " Escort of the President of the Republic of Peru as the official escort of the President of the Republic of Peru, giving as main mission to guarantee the security of the President of the Republic and the Government Palace of Perú in Lima.

She married film producer Alan Greisman in 1984, and they had one son, Sam ; Field and Greisman divorced in 1993.

The university's Chancellors have included Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby and George J. Mitchell.

* Harris, Alan ; Tucker, Laurel & Vinicombe, Keith ( 1994 ) The Macmillan Field Guide to Bird Identification, Macmillan Press.

A. by Alan Harris ; Photographic Editing and Field Photography by David Cottridge ; Edited by Guy M. Kirwan and Lars Svensson .. ( Helm Identification Guides )

A. by Alan Harris ; Photographic Editing and Field Photography by David Cottridge ; Edited by Guy M. Kirwan and Lars Svensson .. ( Helm Identification Guides )

Designed by Ivor Roberts-Jones, the statue is one of three of British Second World War Field Marshals ( the others being Alan Brooke and Montgomery ).

* Harris, Alan ; Tucker, Laurel & Vinicombe, Keith ( 1994 ) The Macmillan Field Guide to Bird Identification, Macmillan Press.

* Alan Harris, Laurel Tucker & Keith Vinicombe ( 1994 ) The Macmillan Field Guide to Bird Identification, Macmillan Press.

He told the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, that he would like Browning to take over VIII Corps in the event that Richard O ' Connor were transferred to another theatre.

* Stakeholder Welfare by Frank Field, Alan Deacon, Pete Alcock, David G. Green, Melanie Phillips, 2000, Civitas ISBN 1-903386-93-4

* Debating Pensions: Self-Interest, Citizenship and the Common Good by Frank Field and Alan Deacon, 2002, Civitas ISBN 1-903386-24-1

At the Casablanca Conference, King was accused by Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke of favoring the Pacific war, and the argument became heated.

The guest stars in that four-week period were chronologically Cheryl Ladd, Alan Arkin, Penny Marshall, and Sally Field.

It was created on 29 January 1946 for Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Baron Alanbrooke.

* 22 July 1940 – 3 May 1941: East African Field Force: General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham