Field Marshal Montgomery was, according to Ronald Lewin, the greatest British military commander since Wellington. He also became one of the most controversial.

The standing civil war -- Dunkirk to Cairo -- Alam Halfa : the model battle -- Alamein -- To the African shores -- Forward to Tripoli -- Mareth and the mountains -- Sicily to the Sangro -- Overlord : the master plan -- Normandy : mastery achieved -- Normandy : the coup de grace -- From the Seine to the Rhine -- Germany without Berlin -- 'The most ever-rated general'?