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Bernard Montgomery received a...

history · 10 September 1944 · 80 years ago

Bernard Montgomery received a visit from Dwight Eisenhower at Brussels, Belgium during which Montgomery criticized Eisenhower's broad front strategy and demanded his army group to be the sole offensive force as current strategy placed the other two army groups in poor positions to launch attacks into Germany. Eisenhower responded "teady Monty, you can't talk to me like that. I'm your boss." 

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