Monty ‘thoroughly enjoyed’ fighting Rommel

A newly-released letter written by Bernard Montgomery and sent from the north African desert in World War Two tells how he ‘thoroughly enjoyed’ his first face-off with Rommel, the Nazis’ Desert Fox. In the epistle the great Spartan General also details his theory that ‘we all wash too much’ and, perhaps oddly, admits that he hadn’t had a bath in … Read More