This is John Batchel, conversation with the author of Professor Lloyd Clark, his book, The Commanders,

the leadership journeys of George Patton for the Americans, Bernard Montgomery for the United

Kingdom, and Erwin Rommel for the Third Reich. Lloyd Clark is the co-founder

of the Center for Army Leadership, British Army, at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.

Profiles of the three men as they danced around each other in the Second War, Rommel, dead of his own hand after he was blamed for a plot against Hitler in July of 1944.

Montgomery went on to become the chief of the general staff,

honored by all the king and all the prime ministers the rest of his life and George Patton

dead in a car accident in 1945 after the war the commanders here's Montgomery

there is the wrong way and there is the Montgomery way.

Lloyd Clark, more of this tonight.

Very much the case.

There was the wrong way and there was the Montgomery way.

And he was very keen to ensure that his view gained the credibility that he would say that it deserved through publication. He could talk in the

messes and people might call him a bore, but he was also a prolific publisher of articles

and as a lecturer as well. He was always passing on his views. It is something that helped

him gain confidence in his professionalism and got the name Montgomery, Burn Montgomery, out there into the wider army, and it served him well.