that was only yesterday...

grey day.
no colour.
everything is in black and white.
reading monty by nigel hamilton.
the man of the guns.
illuminating character study.
allbroken down in very short chapters.
triggered a memory of all people Mathew B Ridgway so it was necessary to wikiup and grok the story.
relive all those memories of books battles and other generals from far away.
men of guns.
massed artillery.
movement.
aerial assault
defiant men
tanks
mines
barbed wire
blood
destruction
interminable noise
explosions
whines.

and monty.
carrying the load.
a funny prickly arrogant cocksure commander.
fighting the stupidity of the british ruling class as much as anything else but yet captured by the same .