1100 Miles with Monty : Security and Intelligence at TAC HQ

From 1943 to 1946, Norman Kirby was in charge of intelligence and security at General Montgomery''s Tactical HQ, 21st Army Group. It was a charge which carried with it the burden of Monty''s personal safety and placed Sergeant Kirby in a privileged position at many key events of the war.

As a linguist, Kirby acted as Monty''s interpreter and link with the local people, and his work brought him into contact with a wide spectrum of the population as the Allied advance pushed on from the beaches of Normandy through Europe. Here, Kirby paints a world full of intrigue and the utmost danger, populated not only by the war-weary citizens of France, Belgium and Holland, but the sinister figures of spies and agents provocateurs and by shadowy members of the Resistance.