Article: Master of manoeuvres; Television.(Review)

Byline: PETER PATERSON

Battlefields: El Alamein (BBC2); Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings Of Sherlock Holmes - The Kingdom Of Bones (BBC1)

A NEW biography of Field Marshal Montgomery apparently argues (I've not read it) that the victor in the decisive Battle of El Alamein in October, 1942 - one of the great turning points in World War II - had a unique concern for the lives of his soldiers because he was a repressed homosexual.

This is the kind of theory beloved of biographers because it provides a sensational twist to a life story that would otherwise consist of painfully slow promotions, postings to obscure outposts of the old British Empire, ...

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