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.

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.

He interacted adeptly with allies such as Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General Charles de Gaulle.

* Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Field Marshal, British Army

* 1945 – World War II: The North German Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.

* Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery

* August 17 – WWII: The US 7th Army under General George S. Patton meets the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery in Messina, Sicily, completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

" One possible exception was none other than Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.

* Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ( Field Marshal )

In the north, in the first week of September, the British 21st Army Group, under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, sent its British Second Army commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey advancing on a line running from Antwerp to the northern border of Belgium while its First Canadian Army, under Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar, was pursuing its task of recapturing the ports of Dieppe, Le Havre and Boulogne-sur-Mer.

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Bernard Montgomery

Its deployment at the beach caused such problems that Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, commander of the U. S. First Army, at one stage considered evacuating Omaha, while Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery considered the possibility of diverting V Corps forces through Gold Beach.

It is housed in the former bungalow of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery wrote in 1947:

Just north of Foothill Boulevard is the college-owned Robert J. Bernard Field Station, which preserves natural coastal sage scrub on its property.

Monument to the DutchIn September 1944 the liberation of Sint-Oedenrode came during Operation Market-Garden envisaged by Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery.

In September 1944 the liberation of Sint-Oedenrode came during Operation Market-Garden envisaged by Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery.

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery later wrote: " I would name Sir John Monash as the best general on the western front in Europe ".

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery favoured a single thrust north over the branches of the Lower Rhine river, allowing the British 2nd Army to bypass the German Siegfried Line and attack the Ruhr.

Although Allied commanders generally favoured a broad front policy to continue the advance into Germany and the Netherlands, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery proposed a bold plan to head north through the Dutch Gelderland, bypassing the German Siegfried line defences and opening a route into the German industrial heartland of the Ruhr.

The British commander in Europe, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, said on 7 January 1945: " I used to think that Rommel was good, but my opinion is that Rundstedt would have hit him for six.

Many research projects and courses utilize the Robert J. Bernard Field Station, an natural area which consists principally of the rare Coastal Sage Scrub ecosystem.

In the north British 21st Army Group commanded by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (" Monty "), in the middle the American 12th Army Group commanded by General Omar N. Bradley, and in the South the American 6th Army Group commanded by Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers.

The heath was the scene of the unconditional surrender of German forces in northern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands to the Allies, under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, on May 4, 1945, at the end of World War II in Europe.