Montgomery
Sir,—While I do not wish to tarnish the image of FieldMarshall Montgomery (“The Press,” April 28), the fact remains that he had an abundance of everything at the second Battle of Alamein while his predecessors (Wavell and Auchinlech) had not much more than bren-gun carriers in the desert. I will even go as far to say that if Churchill had not “sidetracked” Wavell's desert forces to the lost theatre of Greece and Crete, Wavell, whom Rommel said was the only desert general with any genius, could have had the desert war won when he was defeating the Italians “left right and centre” in 1941.— Yours, etc., KEITH BROWN, pril 28, 1981.
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