Michael Wood (historian)
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Michael David Wood is an English historian and broadcaster. He has presented numerous well-known television documentary series from the late 1970s to the present day. Wood has also written a number of
Wood in 2013
Bernard Montgomery
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Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence, and the Second World War.
Michael Wood (historian)
…Wood took A-levels in English, French and History. When studying at the Manchester Grammar School, Wood wrote a letter in response to an article by Montgomery of Alamein about how the Anglo-Saxons had lost in 1066 because they were a backward bunch of pot-bellied drunks. Wood's letter was written as King Harold and…
Montgomery in 1943
Captain Bernard Montgomery (right) with Brigadier-General J. W. Sandilands, commander of the 104th Brigade, 35th Division. Montgomery served as brigade major with the 104th Brigade from January 1915 until early 1917.
The Minister of Munitions, Winston Churchill, watching the march past of the 47th (2nd London) Division in the Grande Place, Lille, France, October 1918. In front of him is the 47th Division's GSO1, Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Montgomery.
Lieutenant-General Alan Brooke, GOC II Corps, with Major-General Bernard Montgomery, GOC 3rd Division, and Major-General Dudley Johnson, GOC 4th Infantry Division, pictured here in either 1939 or 1940