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The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called "good fighting generals" of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one such was Plumer; I had only once seen him and had never spoken to him.

— Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

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Memoirs (London: Collins, 1958), p 35.

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