Volume 23, Number 15 · September 30, 1976
Battle over Monty
By Neal Ascherson
Montgomery of Alamein
by Alun Chalfont
Atheneum, 365 pp., $12.95
Monty had an obsession about coughing. People who coughed were unable to hear what he was saying; worse, they prevented others from hearing what he was saying. No doubt people coughed while Christ, Mohammed, and Buddha (three of the Field Marshal's four favorite leaders) were speaking; no doubt there was the occasional hack and hoast while Genghis Khan and von Moltke and Moses were briefing their headquarters staff. It is not recorded that they found a way of dealing with the problem.
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