Bertram ramsay biography books

Brian Izzard wrote the first biography on the mastermind of the Dunkirk evacuation and D-Day landings: Admiral Bertram Ramsey.

Before then, very little was known about this extraordinary man.

Today, that changes.

There were several British military leaders in World War 2 who were not averse to personal publicity. Montgomery and Mountbatten spring to mind.

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To a degree, vanity was a factor, but their confidence, or rather over confidence, can be excused because it often raised morale, not only among the men they led but also with the suffering civilian population at home. Even today, the names of Montgomery and Mountbatten resonate.

And there remains, of course, the supreme master of leadership, Churchill.

Yet how many think of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay?

Arguably, Ramsay deserves to rank alongside Churchill and Montgomery, as well as such figures as Eisenhower, Cunningham, Alanbrooke and Tedder.

He made an outstanding contribution to victory in Europe.

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