From a conversation with Sir Brian Urquhart :

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/UN/...urquhart1.html


"Our general, who was a very dashing figure called Boy Browning, said to Prince Bernard of the Netherlands that the Allied forces were going to advance into Germany over a carpet of airborne troops. And I said to our chief of staff, "I wonder if they're going to be alive or dead airborne troops." This didn't go well at all, and everybody decided that they'd had enough, and I got sent away. I asked if I could stay just as an ordinary officer in the operation. They said, "No, you'll be court-martialed if you disobey orders."

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