A brilliant literary account of an historic experience

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	• 1100 Miles with Monty: Security and Intelligence at TAC HQ Norman Kirby The History Press, 2003 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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A brilliant literary account of an historic experience

Norman Kirby's account of the second world war and the part he played in it from testing British national defences whilst with the intelligence service later to be reknowned as MI6 to making secretive contact with French underground members after the invasion of Normandy in 1944 before joining Field Marshal Montgomery and his staff as a translator at the surrender given by German Field Marshal Keitel was an insightful, compassionate and thrilling tail of one man's experience of human adventure and misadventure that should be read by anyone with an interest in what world war II really meant and the effect it had on the average man through the eyes of a very gifted and modest raconteur whose story should be taken to heart as a parable of what might be but for the bravery and sacrifice of so many.

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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.

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