Why Churchill Couldn't Fire Montgomery After Market Garden
Автор: WW2 Legacy
Загружено: 2026-01-01
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On September 26th, 1944, Winston Churchill learned that Operation Market Garden had failed catastrophically with over 17,000 Allied casualties and no strategic gain—but instead of holding Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery accountable, Churchill defended him publicly and privately.
Drawing on War Cabinet minutes, Churchill's correspondence with Roosevelt and Eisenhower, Field Marshal Alan Brooke's diaries, and contemporary parliamentary debates, this documentary examines why Churchill couldn't fire Montgomery despite the disaster: Montgomery's celebrity after El Alamein made him essential to British national morale, Churchill faced a looming general election against Labour, and firing Britain's most famous general would force Churchill to admit British military failures. The story traces the pattern from Market Garden through Montgomery's press conference disaster after the Battle of the Bulge, showing how Churchill's domestic political calculations led him to defend Montgomery repeatedly despite American fury and the strategic cost—a case study in how political necessity overrides military competence in coalition warfare.
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