During a dinner in Saigon with some news correspondents in 1971, Gen. Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Vietnam, was asked his opinion of the movie, "Patton." Abrams, who had served under the ...

To quote William Faulkner, “The past is never dead—it is not even past.” Of no great event is that more true than of World War II, in the shattered debris of which, politically speaking, we are still ...

David Montgomery’s grip on National World appears to be weakening after a rival shareholder’s £62m bid - JULIAN SIMMONDS When newspaper executive David Montgomery crashed back into the UK local media ...

Bernard Law Montgomery is an abstemious, godly and implacable man. With the zeal of the godly he went to work. Hour after hour, for twelve days, his Eighth Army had surged against every foot of Rommel ...

‘Ruthless’ cost-cutter David Montgomery, publisher of the The Scotsman, appears to have met his match James Warrington is The Telegraph’s Media and Telecoms Editor. He writes about the fast-moving ...