The night Ike almost fired the UK’s favorite general (Montgomery) to save the alliance.
PARIS, FRANCE — At 11:47 p.m. on January 6, 1945, General Dwight Eisenhower sat alone in his candle-lit office at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in Versailles, holding a single sheet of paper that could have ended the Anglo-American alliance. The document was a signed relief order removing Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery from command of … Read more