Item THOMPSON 2/3 - Letters from Major General Eric Dorman O'Gowan to Thompson, 1964-1969, on topics including Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery

Letters from Maj Gen Eric Edward Dorman O'Gowan (formerly Eric Edward Dorman Smith) to Thompson relating to FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and the 8 Army in August 1942, the change in command in Cairo, Egypt and at 8 Army headquarters in August 1942; the achievements of FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck at El Alamein in October/November 1942; problems with British armour; development and use of tanks, Montgomery's Normandy command; Montgomery and the Second Battle of El Alamein, Oct 1942; Operation TORCH, the invasion of North West Africa in November 1942 and its detrimental effect on Operation ROUNDUP, a plan for an invasion of Europe in 1943 (later developed into Operation OVERLORD); The Montgomery Legend Part 1 (Allen & Unwin, London, 1967). With a draft for a letter of protest by O'Gowan over The Alexander memoirs, 1940-1945 edited by John North (Cassell, London, 1962); a press release outlining the forced changes to The Second World War Vol. 4, The hinge of fate by Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (Cassell, London, 1951); a photocopy of the article 'Land warfare' by Brig Eric Edward Dorman-Smith, in the Journal of the United Service Institution of India, Jan 1941; two index cards with information relating to Dorman-Smith. 1 file