Montgomery no doubt made enemies amongst the British, when he first took over in NA he sacked quite a few senior officers. At a guess, success seems to have gone to his head later on. But early on he carried out quite a few organisational and operational reforms eg abolished the box defence concept and the breaking up of divisions to form ad hoc battle groups which had resulted in poorly balanced and uncordinated attacks.

Probably the best British General in NA was Richard O'Connor who had blitzkreiged the Italians but was captured soon after Rommel appeared. He was bold and not afraid to exploit any weakness by moving around resistence to attack the rear.

As you are probably are aware, M though highly of Lightning Joe Collins, apparently the two got on well together.

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