Dimensions
170 x 242 x 57mm
Nigel Hamilton's award-winning three-volume official life, 'Monty' worked within the constraints of the time and circumstances under which it was written. Now, at last, he is able to present us with 'The Full Monty', based on new sources and a new interpretation of Monty's legendary ability to inspire young men on the field of battle.
The story is an extraordinarily rich and fascinating one revealing a withdrawn, stubborn, difficult individual who remained both highly characteristic of the Imperial tradition in which he was raised and yet utterly revolutionary in his criticism of that world.
With immense skill Hamilton shows how Montgomery's repressed homosexuality was the key to his behaviour - homosexuality that distanced him from the conventional world which surrounded him, yet which made him uniquely value the welfare and lives of the soldiers under his care.
Hamilton's powerful biography and unflinching portrait of one of Britain's greatest heroes. This is, in all manner of ways, 'The Full Monty'.
