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This is Tom Rutter’s first novel but he has been a writer all of his life. He was conceived in Chicago, Illinois during the Battle of the Bulge and born just two days after the final surrender which marked the end of World War II in 1945. He was birthed from the Greatest Generation and listened to the stories of WWII and their unambiguous definition of right and wrong but he grew up in the Sixties in a nebulous world of searching and dreaming. At the time of his birth in the same Chicago hospital as Ernest Hemingway, Christine and the American would have been sitting in the cafes of post-war Paris journaling her life. Between Tom’s conception and his birth many significant WWII events occurred: • Three world leaders die; U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, German Nazi Dictator Adolph Hitler and Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini. • Heinrich Himler, Head of the Gestapo and Joseph Gobbles, Nazi Propagandist both committed suicide. • The young, Jewish diarist Anne Frank was captured and then murdered in a German death camp. • Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were killed in the final nine and one half months of ruthless, mechanized fighting in Europe and the Pacific. • Two atomic bombs were dropped on the people of Japan killing hundreds of thousands of Japanese ci
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Bernard Montgomery
British Army officer (1887–1976)
"General Montgomery" redirects here. For other uses, see General Montgomery (disambiguation).
Field MarshalThe Right Honourable The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein KG GCB DSO PC DL | |
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Montgomery in 1943 | |
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| Born | (1887-11-17)17 November 1887[1] Kennington, Surrey, England |
| Died | 24 March 1976(1976-03-24) (aged 88) Alton, Hampshire, England |
| Buried | Holy Cross Churchyard, Binsted, Hampshire |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service / branch | British Army |
| Years of service | 1908–1958 |
| Rank | Field Marshal |
| Service number | 8742 |
| Unit | Royal Warwickshire Regiment |
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| Spouse(s) | Betty Carver (m. 1927; died 1937) |
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Field MarshalBernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of AlameinKG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Armyofficer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War.
Montgomery first saw action in the First World War as a junior officer of the Royal Warwickshire Re
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Q&A: Rhett Bandleader of Wane 97’s
By Lynne Margolis
April 2008
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