Further to the above posts. Max Hastings' book Churchill's War is currently being serialised in the UKs Daily Mail. The message to Montgomery is...
Alexander Werth's "Russia At War,1941-1945" first published in 1964, is one of the best I've read on this subject.
My favorite film re WW2 is the documentry "Victory At Sea". Not the 26 part TV version but the superbly edited cinema version,with the commentry...
Some time after the war ended I seem to remember Field Marshall Montgomery stating that Churchill had sent him a telegram near the end of...