This is CBSI in the World.

I'm John Bachelet, Professor Lloyd Clark.

The book is The Commanders, the leadership journey of George Patten Bernard Montgomery

and Erwin Rommel.

It is now the spring of 1944.

Bernard Montgomery is rewarded with overall command of the ground forces on D-Day, the

crossing of the channel, the invasion of France.

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 Rommel on the coast of France.

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

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