Montgomery's Top 3 Tactical Masterpieces

Bernard Montgomery took over a beaten army in the Egyptian desert and turned it into the force that broke Rommel. From the trap at Alam el Halfa to the great breakthrough at El Alamein and the daring left hook around the Mareth Line, these are Montgomery's three greatest tactical masterpieces. 0:00 Introduction 0:56 Masterpiece I: The Trap at Alam el Halfa (Egypt, 1942) 3:21 Masterpiece II: Breaking the Devil's Gardens (El Alamein, 1942) 5:28 Operation Supercharge 6:36 Masterpiece III: The Left Hook (Mareth Line, 1943) 7:34 Mareth: two blows at once 9:40 Legacy Sources Wikipedia: Bernard Montgomery, Battle of Alam el Halfa, Second Battle of El Alamein, Battle of Medenine, Battle of the Mareth Line Archival footage (public domain): "Desert Victory" (British Ministry of Information, 1943), United News (1942-1943, National Archives), U.S. Army Signal Corps films 111-ADC-162 and 111-ADC-9796 - via the Internet Archive. Portraits: "Lt-General Sir Bernard Montgomery" (c. 1942) and INF 3/80 artwork, The National Archives (UK), public domain - via Wikimedia Commons. Satellite imagery: Sentinel-2 cloudless - https://s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 & 2017), CC BY 4.0. Map data: Natural Earth (public domain). Place names: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Narration, music and sound effects generated with ElevenLabs. Subscribe to Flankwise for more tactical masterpieces: https://www.youtube.com/@Flankwise?su... #Montgomery #WW2 #MilitaryHistory