NEW ROLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 December 1943, Page 4

NEW ROLE

FOR THE EIGHTH ARMY COMMANDER AUTHOR OF OUTSTANDING WAR BOOK. OF HISTORIC & TECHNICAL INTEREST. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, December 9. General Sir Bernard Montgomery, commander of the Eighth Army, has written a book which may prove to be not only one of the historical documents of the war, but a texynook for a second front, says Reuter. The book, which was writetn after the Allied landing in the toe of Italy, is described as a remarkable, hard-hitting treatise on the use of air power. The book was printed privately and circulated only among high service commanders and political leaders. Its conclusions and recommendations probably will be disseminated to all Army and Air Force officers who will be concerned in the great assault against Europe. General Montgomery is stated to be revealed as an admiring champion of the air technique created by Chief Marshal Tedder’s Mediterranean Air Command, t and also as a forceful exponent of land and air co-operation on a scale not previously known. The book is a stimulating and practical assessment of integrated and single-minded appreciation of fire-power from land, sea and air.