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He is to command the 21st Army Group. He's in charge of the landing itself. He's been

inspirational to his own men, but to his peers, Eisenhower and the other commanders who

from the American side and the British side, he's irritating. He creates friction. He doesn't

care what you think of his opinion. And we're going to go to a lecture. The lecture of lectures

he gives in his life. This is at St. Paul's School in May of 1944. He's given this presentation

in April, but now this morning, Winston Churchill, the prime minister, is present. The professor

gives us the detail that Bernard Montgomery lays out a map on the floor. And he's going

to tell them how he's going to conquer first the Army Group B commanded by Erwin Raubel

on the coast of France. And then he's going to conquer France and the German Army. And

then he's going all the way to Berlin. Professor, this is a scene that you can't make up.

Bernard Montgomery giving the lecture of his life. What is the memory of the men who were

in that room? Was he persuasive? Was he mesmerizing? Did they write it in their memoirs?

He was scintillating in May 1944. This is the man who had been presented with a plan

that he said was not good enough. There was full of holes. He reinvented the overlord

plan and he took ownership of it. And this was his presentation of the Montgomery plan.

And he was absolutely at the center of it. And it was not just the way that he presented

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