MONTY
The Battles of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery
by Nigel Hamilton
A one-volume edition of Hamilton's (JFK: Reckless Youth, 1992) three-volume biography, which won the Whitbread Award. This is, strictly speaking, history made personal—which is just the way Montgomery saw it. Montgomery's relations with Churchill, de Gaulle, and Eisenhower give Hamilton more than enough fodder for a grand tale that hews to the Great Man theory of history. Epic, engrossing, big.