" Montgomery, in defeat unbeatable, in victory unbearable. " - Churchill

1:23 "Well I both drink and smoke and I'm 200% fit." This part gets me every time. British humor is just priceless.

@davidfarrer4332

Жыл бұрын

I can totally believe that would be something Churchill would say! Lol. 😄

@livethefuture2492

10 ай бұрын

Pretty sure he did say that at some point.

@DECODEDVFX

8 ай бұрын

Not wrong either. He lived to be 90.

Funny to mention that despite Winston drinking and smoking his whole life, he outlived Montgomery by 2 years (90!)

@rosesprog1722

2 жыл бұрын

And Roosevelt, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, he survived them all... life is so unfair!

@steelgray789

2 жыл бұрын

@@rosesprog1722 Truman outlived him, though.

@rosesprog1722

2 жыл бұрын

@@steelgray789 When Truman arrived it was all over, he didn't have worry lines in his face, : ) He must have been younger too, I don't know.

@homeworld1765

2 жыл бұрын

@@rosesprog1722 To be fair, Mussolini was executed while Hitler committed suicide, those wouldn't count since Stalin and Roosevelt died of natural causes like Churchill.

@thevillaaston7811

2 жыл бұрын

@@rosesprog1722 'And Roosevelt, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, he survived them all... life is so unfair!' How so?.. Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini caused all sorts of trouble. Roosevelt was a two-faced know nothing who had the luck to have his country 3,000 miles from the nearest enemy.

Of all the actors portraying Churchill, this actor seems to have got the voice right.

@Brickcellent

4 жыл бұрын

He's Brendan Gleeson. I never knew he did this role before.

@robertfrancis4712

3 жыл бұрын

It’s easy

@RSimusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertfrancis4712 ok "gingerpuff67"

@FaakedLillebror

3 жыл бұрын

It is ridiculously absurd that an Irishman is playing Churchill. For context, Churchill send a army of ww1 vets to subdue Ireland during the independence war. They ended up being akin to how the Einsats Gruppen were acting on the eastern front. Burning towns, shooting civilians, all that. The absurd irony is not lost here lad

@RSimusic

3 жыл бұрын

Nikolaj Thuesen totally!!!!

"Montgomery: I don't drink nor smoke, but I am 100% fit. Chruchill: I drink and smoke, and I'm 200% fit" #REKT

@keeperofthecheese

8 жыл бұрын

he said it in real life too - Churchill was a boss

@jonathancollier4493

7 жыл бұрын

Montgomery was promoted to Field Marshal.

@HABO2210

7 жыл бұрын

says a man walking with a cane

@Infernal460

7 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Collier Not one of Britain's best generals, then again most were bad.

@jonathancollier4493

7 жыл бұрын

Ey, respect him. After all, he did a wonderful speech and lived to fight a wonderful life during WWII.

woman to Churchill: "you are drunk!" Churchill: "Well, ma'am, I may be drunk, but you're ugly, and in the morning, I'll be sober!"

@Stopitpls

3 жыл бұрын

@Criminals rule the world now! Mad bastard won the world’s largest war while pissed. Legend.

@mysteryman9540

3 жыл бұрын

@MaxSt Arlyn Hitler: "When starting a war, it is not right that counts, but VICTORY!"

@Stopitpls

3 жыл бұрын

@MaxSt Arlyn Bruh, what’s this have to do with pissed Churchill?

@user-fk8rb8ue5h

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it was Bessie Braddock. Good to know you don't know your history very well.

@mysteryman9540

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-fk8rb8ue5h ? Who doesnt know what history?

I swear Churchill has had the widest variety of actors portray him in film than any other historical figure.

@falconeshield

11 ай бұрын

He even had a bad prime minister cosplay as him while his country went through a viral war - and failed miserably at it

@peteraustin3918

10 ай бұрын

I think King Henry VIII might possibly have more...

@joshuagarnham9703

4 ай бұрын

The Queen had more

When he said "irmtuldyurmekingqoiteafoosabutursurthenurydifenses is that so?" i felt that

*"Well I both drink and smoke and I'm 200% fit!"*

@noviammapping8226

7 жыл бұрын

Rekt

@Tina06019

6 жыл бұрын

That is a funny line. Some people are genetically primed to live a long, long time, barring misadventure. People in my family often live even longer than they want to.

@rogi_itsumi5370

6 жыл бұрын

@Lewis Thats why he need a Stick?

@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980

6 жыл бұрын

General Guisan Quai i Its a walking cane not a stick & was a very fashionable accessory for men up till the late 1930's. Churchill was notoriously old fashioned in his dress sense. & wouldn't consider leaving the house without a waistcoat on till the day he died. It was a gift presented to Churchill by King Edward VII. Churchill took it with him almost everywhere he went as a mark of pride.

@rogi_itsumi5370

6 жыл бұрын

Ok, sorry I dont know that.

Best part IMO is how fast Churchill comes to a decision and agrees. "You want buses, buses you shall have. Now lets talk about lunch." Cuts through the bureaucratic crap in a minute. Today such a decision would take months.

@nohomers100

7 жыл бұрын

What are you basing what you say on? Do you have an example?

@Damo2690

7 жыл бұрын

Tal Benschar thats coz it was a war

@tabor721

7 жыл бұрын

Churchill immediately comes to a decision, because he and British were taking supplies from America through Lend Lease Act. FDR loaned 31 billion dollars of war supplies to Britain.

@1chish

7 жыл бұрын

+Tabor 7 Well sorry that simply isn't true. If you 'lend' or 'give' something you don't attach an invoice. When this scene took place we were on our own fresh from the defeat at Dunkirk (well OK we saved 320,000 troops) and were paying cash for everything the USA supplied on FOB terms. Which in early 1940 was not actually a lot. Supplies sold to the UK increased in '40 and '41 and added more GDP to the the Depression ravaged US economy than FDR's 'New Deal' ever did. Lend / Lease didn't really kick in until early 1942 and US industry benefited as much as the UK did. By which time the USA was finally in the war itself. Lend / Lease cost was about 17% of the UK war budget of over £120 Bn. Of course the $6.8 Bn the UK supplied to the USA in 'Reverse Lend / Lease' was never 'netted off' our debt let alone repaid. And lets not get into the savage attack the USA made on the UK £ in 1947 that doubled our $ debt to the USA. Care to discuss the huge amount of technology we transferred to the USA for nothing in 1941? Google The Tizzard Missions and realise how much the UK GAVE to the USA. The USA sold and leased us everything. As was proved when in mid 1945 the balance was turned into a loan overnight while ships were still at sea. Whatever the USA had here and didn't need was purchased at an agreed 10 cents on the $ value and added to the loan. A loan I might add that we finally paid off in 2006.

@smartlp3010

7 жыл бұрын

what makes you think that it would take months?

After graduating from the Staff College, Montgomery was appointed brigade major in the 17th Infantry Brigade in January 1921. The brigade was stationed in County Cork, Ireland, carrying out counter-insurgency operations during the final stages of the Irish War of Independence and was the only British Army unit in Ireland that was never accused of war crimes. He made a point of saying that all prisoners from all sides were to be treated fairly and actually court-martialled a number of senior officers who had made reprisals against civilians. He viewed the "Black & Tans" as "nothing but a bunch of criminal lunatics".

@jamestaylor5341

Жыл бұрын

If you are fighting an insurgency you must be 5 times harsher and crueler than the insurgency.

@MrHeavy466

Жыл бұрын

@@jamestaylor5341 That works every time, oh wait a minute, no.

@llllib

Жыл бұрын

​@@jamestaylor5341I think assumption is you want to defeat insurgency not trying to aid their recruitment

@ralphraffles1394

Жыл бұрын

@@jamestaylor5341 Note eventually the option chosen by the Dublin government in the Irish civil war.

@jamestaylor5341

Жыл бұрын

@@ralphraffles1394 The Irish can destroy each other. I couldn't care less.

"It is an axiom of war that the side that stays within its fortifications is beaten." - Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French

@Rayoscope

5 жыл бұрын

@kizz Do I also tell it to the over 1 million men massacred in those "impregnable" trenches? Well, I've seen much more formidable objectives. Much, much worse. Well, not something we can grab and run away with...but certainly pregnable. - Sounds kind of odd, though, doesn't it? Why? - Well, like something to do with giving birth. Oh, yes, quite. You're right on your toes this morning, Colonel. - Paths of Glory (1957) - dialogue between General Mireau and Colonel Dax.

@owenjones7517

4 жыл бұрын

@kizz Not with sufficient artillery preparation.

@michaelgoldsmith9359

4 жыл бұрын

This isn’t just a quote on warfare it’s specific to the time period regarding the innovations he made with artillery compared made forts redundant It doesn’t apply beyond the Napoleonic wars as trenches in ww1 show

@SuperLeica1

4 жыл бұрын

Once an army locks their enemy out, it locks itself in - then time tells.

@apalahartisebuahnama7684

4 жыл бұрын

@@SuperLeica1 hope that the time tells there will be no enemy's counter attack from the other side, the Germans locks the Soviets in Leningrad and Stalingrad.

Monty did keep himself fit but he was shot in the lung and knee in World War One which gave him trouble in later life.

@benjamingotamco8336

5 жыл бұрын

l

@greensmithfootball10

4 жыл бұрын

But he still had a really long life and died at 88 years old

@moreme40

4 жыл бұрын

Never knew that about Montgomery

@maryshaffer8474

3 жыл бұрын

In one biography it was hinted Monty got a little taken with a young boy and caused embarrassment.

@alperaksu2787

3 жыл бұрын

Battle of Gallipoli

It's hard for me to take some British dialects seriously because of the mass viewing of Monty Python I did as a kid

@julzhickman

7 жыл бұрын

i notice they also fail to understand humour and tend to tease people to appease their own mediocrity :D

@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980

6 жыл бұрын

julzhickman I've dated several Brits so I honestly say that they do have a sense of humor. But it's rather a dry satirical & sardonic sense of houmor. They're the kind of people who do not tolerate fools willing. & will happily give said fool a rope to go hang themself with if given the opportunity.

@Vollification

6 жыл бұрын

British is strange that way. It can make any serious matter sound mundane, turn anything into a joke or insult someone with dignity.

@That_Random_Bloke

6 жыл бұрын

William Patrick Graham Chapman has a lot to answer for

@johntitor7989

5 жыл бұрын

Where did that come from Damon?

Churchill was a textbook example of the right man in the right place at the right time. Prior to WWII he was a written off joke. His career was a litany of failures, perhaps none more so than Gallipoli, which he oversaw. Forced out of the cabinet and in the political wilderness, he retreated to writing and effectively saw his time in politics as over. But the thing about Churchill is that, even if he didn't publicly admit his mistakes, he learned from them. By WWII he knew exactly what he was doing, and did it well. It would be as if someone like David Blunket or Normon Lamont came back today as prime minister. But notwithstanding his undoubted abilities to do the job, he was never particularly popular as a prime minister, which is why he lost the '45 election to Clement Atlee, who was, in my opinion, our most underrated prime minister ever. A lesser known fact about Churchill was that he subsequently won the Nobel prize for Literature.

@barryirlandi4217

6 жыл бұрын

drawingboard82 nasty blood thirsty scum bag... Failed many times and finally got it over with

@redrobefan

6 жыл бұрын

Gallipoli and Norway

@michaelcevasco3587

6 жыл бұрын

He proposed Gallipoli, was the naval head, but the Admirals on the scene blithered and delayed and lost the opportunity. Not his fault, though he had to eat it.

@Baskerville22

5 жыл бұрын

Churchill didn't "oversee Gallipoli". It was his idea and it was a good idea. Unfortunately, the British military leadership at Gallipoli was lacking when it came to implementing the idea. AND, his career was not "a litany of failures" before WW2. You should read real history instead of just absorbing left-wing propaganda. He had been an Army Officer: a famous war correspondent; a major historian (The World Crisis, 1914-18, Marlborough, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples) the First Sea Lord and Cabinet Minister. Hardly "a litany of failure".

@odysseusrex5908

5 жыл бұрын

It should be noted that, after being forced out of the cabinet due to Gallipoli, the failure of which was not actually his fault, Churchill joined the army, was appointed to command of a regiment, and served in the trenches in France, gaining the respect and admiration of his superiors and subordinates.

the actor playing chruchill did a pretty bad job... i can understand every word he says!

@capnskiddies

3 жыл бұрын

Brendan Gleeson

@filipkajmakoski8464

3 жыл бұрын

@Crood read again what i wrote I think you didn't understand it.

@rsimmons41407

3 жыл бұрын

He was fantastic in Braveheart.

@marcellarenusup3505

3 жыл бұрын

He just speak British🇬🇧 English because that you can't understand

@kewljoi

3 жыл бұрын

worst comment ever i read

The two of them became firm friends after the War, and after Churchill was voted out, Montgomery used to keep a packed suitcase at his front door so when Churchill had an attack of the "Black Dog" he would drive over and stay with him.

@mikeodonovan9299

3 жыл бұрын

i knew about churcills depression. didnt know monty popped over for company, cool.

@perperson199

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeodonovan9299 Churchill didn't have depression, though he wasn't unmoved by events. The "black dog" is only mentioned once, in a letter to his wife. It's just a myth, but rather popular in cinema

@advancedape9791

2 жыл бұрын

@@perperson199 Nonsense. It's referenced throughout the masterpiece autobiography by William Manchester.

The King and Churchill watch Monte take the cheers and adulation of the crowd: Winston, ' I'm beginning to think that that man is after my job ' King, ' That's a relief Winnie, I thought he was after much mine '.

@prind142

3 жыл бұрын

Monty was a pompous bastard who made his career taking credit for the actions of other. The man didn't die soon enough.

@marcokite

3 жыл бұрын

@@prind142 - probably one of the more disgusting comments on KZread

@prind142

3 жыл бұрын

@@marcokite Tell that to the paratroopers that died in market garden after Montgomery did as he always did and ignored the mass criticism of his battle plans which resulted in tons of unnecessary casualties.

@udbhav122351d

3 жыл бұрын

@@marcokite you don't know your history boy, he neither knew beach landings well nor airborne attacks. If it weren't for the Americans supporting the brits would have died on its crutches: both during and after the war. The brits would have broken up and down. Why the one place USA didn't support ya'll :the Suez Crisis, you fell like a pack of cards. Monty couldn't plan and execute Market Garden well either

@smoothcheeky8910

2 жыл бұрын

@@prind142 eisenhower shares blame for market garden but revisionist American history would say otherwise. Eisenhower had to look over and approve the plan, in fact he agreed with it and green lit it.

"Well I both drink and smoke and I'm 200% fit." Ah, Winston, they just don't make them like that anymore.

I bet Churchill would crease if he heard an Irish man would depict him in a movie about world war 2. Gleeson did a fantastic job regards to mannerisms, posture and etiquette.

@RandomDudeOne

11 ай бұрын

Albert Finney in 'The Gathering Storm' is the best portrayal of Churchill IMHO.

I love British humour. How we can just turn around anything into talking about lunch and how fit we are. If I found myself in a foxhole. I would just turn to my ally and say "well, what do you want for your afternoon tea?"

@midlandredux

6 жыл бұрын

British tanks have had their own built-in teapots for about thirty years. Before that, they had burners so they could make tea outside the turrets.

@odysseusrex5908

5 жыл бұрын

I read once about two Tommys on D-Day, face down in the sand with bullets flying over them, arguing about which side of the body the canteen was supposed to be clipped on.

@catlee8064

5 жыл бұрын

Had some yanks with us in Afghan, our FOB was getting hit hard and after about 2 hours we had a guy walking round offering out cups of tea to them, to say they thought this was strange is an understatement!

@smc1942

4 жыл бұрын

Sany0 ; This American would have been shocked too! To offer tea, but no biscuits! (Or 'cookies' to us!) So Uncivilized! (Just kidding! Hello from across the pond, my friends!)

@BlutoandCo

3 жыл бұрын

@@midlandredux Not teapots. Boilers. Not just for a brew, but mixing hot water into ration packs etcs.

Churchill got a big kick out of Montgomery's "neither drink nor smoke" comment, lol. Yeah, Churchill was fit enough....considering he lived to 91. Excellent portrayal of the UK's most legendary PM. Seems leaders in those days were tough, practical and decisive.

@paratrooper629

5 жыл бұрын

Monty died at 87. Shot thru the lung and knee early in WW1.

@placeholder8768

5 жыл бұрын

Clem Cornpone I mean, William Pitt was great, but if we’re honest, Walpole saved the economy and Cromwell started the overthrowing of monarchies.

@Wandering1500

5 жыл бұрын

@@placeholder8768 Cromwell was a horrendous chap.

@placeholder8768

5 жыл бұрын

James Bradley other than Ireland, which is when he went Thatcher, Cromwell was a brilliant leader, he was basically the Napoleon of his time in every way.

@cliveburt2638

5 жыл бұрын

@Clem Cornpone Who would you have had leading the UK in WW2? It is easy to slefge Soneone from the comfort of chair and 54 years after his death? Assuming you are an American (which Churchill was 50%...)... Plenty of your 20th Century leaders were corrupt (JFK... How else did he get to be POTUS... LBJ, RN), racist, imperialist - either Roosevelt.. Or incompetent Carter, Reagan and elder Bush or sexual predators - Clinton. Churchill, yes was a man of the 19th century, because that is when he grew up

"Well I both drink and smoke and I'm 200% fit!" and he lived till he was 90

Churchill was a total class act. Monty was definitely an instigator sometimes with the upper chain of command, and Ike had to work hard sometimes to keep the peace-John in Texas

@lyndoncmp5751

3 жыл бұрын

Monty was the most experienced and most successful Western Allied ground commander of WW2 by some way. Pity Eisenhower took over ground forces in September 1944 and stalled the allied advance for the next seven months, with the Americans even getting pushed back into a retreat in the Ardennes. Eisenhower should have let Monty command the ground force. They went from the D-Day beaches to Brussels in less than three months under Montgomerys command. He soon went running back to Montgomery in the Bulge though, asking him to take over US 1st Army there.

One never gets the impression that it's Churchill, but an actor playing a Churchill bit. Can't get beyond it.

@robbie_

Жыл бұрын

Actually Gary Oldman's Churchill you do get the sense it's him. He inhabits the character. Doesn't do an impression of him, if you see what I mean.

Ah, the day when an Unstoppable Force met an Unmovable Object: Turns out they each decided the other was a perfectly lovely gent and they both went on an outing to fuck up the Third Reich. Good times. Bloody good times. :3

@infinitecanadian

7 жыл бұрын

'They were the best of times, they were the worst of times.'

@MrConstantine02

7 жыл бұрын

The "worst general in the entire war" defeated the "unbeatable god of warfare" that people put Rommel out to be. Churchill was a drunk, and kinda racist, and kind of a warmonger, sure, but the guy was undoubtebly one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century.

@josephofphoenicia5587

6 жыл бұрын

MrConstantine02 everyone was racist back then you can't judge a person if he is racist or not I am racist but I might end up saving millions of lives

@erlendsvenssson8534

6 жыл бұрын

"In defeat, Unbeatable. In victory, Unbearable" Churchill on Monty

@hankkingsley2976

5 жыл бұрын

@@erlendsvenssson8534 yet Patton kicked montys ass

Haha, just realised that's Balon Greyjoy!

@Dreadepic

8 жыл бұрын

+tcpgblizzard WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@browad891

7 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, you're right I wouldn't have guessed

@plainbagel9192

7 жыл бұрын

''Major General , if you're to fail to defend these shores I shall send your boys undercarriage in a box''

@fistinyourface7053

4 жыл бұрын

At least here he gives a useful advice in terms of war...Balon was an idiot.

I should just delete this comment. The thread under it is so toxic...

@Rayoscope

5 жыл бұрын

"It is an axiom of war that the side that stays within its fortifications is beaten." Napoleon said it first, and better.

@murphysrevenge9650

5 жыл бұрын

I've even see the "ours is not to reason why" quote attributed to Patton. Americans and their plagiarism eh.

@richardmalcolm1457

4 жыл бұрын

And yet, the fixed fortifications at Metz held up Patton's entire Third Army for almost three months in late 1944. Which is just what they were designed to do: buy time for a defending army.

@croisaor2308

4 жыл бұрын

Richard Malcolm Well I’m glad those defences worked and gave Germany the time it needed to win the war.

@richardmalcolm1457

4 жыл бұрын

@@croisaor2308 Well, note that I only said that they *buy time*. They can't buy victory in an unwinnable war (which is what the war was for Germany in September 1944) for you.

1:00 He sounded like a toddler being accused of something by someone else

@macandcheese9527

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

Montgomery's right in this scene about the need for mobile forces, but static defences often served the purpose of deterring or denying key landing points to the enemy, i.e. forcing them to use other beaches where mobile forces can counter then.

@Hibernicus1968

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. People criticize static defense when someone relies on them to _be_ the defense, and that is unwise, but they can still serve as a very useful component of the total defense by channeling an enemy into directions you may want him to go. In avoiding a strong fortification, there will only be so many alternate routes available, and the enemy's options for maneuver become more limited. A good defender can take advantage of that.

@Losrandir

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I would say they're both right. Static defences were manouvered around by the germans but their mere existence did mean power. A combination of static and mobile yet powerful forces would, shall we say, do the trick.

@davidfinch7407

11 ай бұрын

Agreed. A gun like that can quite command the beaches. If the Germans bypass it and invade elsewhere, that means that the British can concentrate their forces on those beaches that don't have guns. BUT: we need to understand more context here. Were resources being spent on static beach guns instead of tank divisions? If so, then Monty might have a point; a competent army is better then immobile forts. But if Britain could do both, then Monty would be a fool to turn down any defensive system offered to him.

@jeremymerrifield7244

11 ай бұрын

Glad you guys agree with Monty. I am sure he will be well chuffed

Monty's 100% right. Static artillery positions were at best a waste of money, munitions and personnel, and at worst target practice for enemy aircraft.

Two great men. Thank God for them.

He was right, static coastal guns were just a bomb target. Unfortunately we found out the hard way that they were also vulnerable from an attack from behind at Singapore.

@Kelly14UK

5 жыл бұрын

Aye. Ah know.

@alalalala57

5 жыл бұрын

Ah Singapore. The worst defeat for the British in World War 2.

@neilghosh3821

5 жыл бұрын

Al As 57 Hong Kong , Malaysia and Burma was 95% taken

@MrPancake777

4 жыл бұрын

g2macs except Singapore wasn’t exactly an island like Britain.

@Klink-ie1pv

4 жыл бұрын

Lawrence proved that at Aqaba as well

Monty: "The Germans would just bypass the guns". True, but you then limit the number of beaches the Germans can land at. Therefore you can concentrate your forces there rather than spread them out over the entire coast. With a mobile reserve just behind the guns that can move towards any landings.

@williamanderson1880

4 жыл бұрын

That worked well for France...

@Tallone55

4 жыл бұрын

@@williamanderson1880 France lacked field radios and passed orders to corps commanders via motorbike and messengers. While French equipment was cutting edge, their command structure was a crippled mess. That same inefficiency was not the case for the UK's army at the time.

@notroll1279

4 жыл бұрын

In those early days of the war, these fixed guns would have been fine targets for air raids or even those ultra heavy long range guns the Germans were tinkering with in Northern France. With hindsight, all went well because the Germans turned their attention to the East little later but right then, relying on fixed guns was a problem indeed.

@monsterlord8327

4 жыл бұрын

@fus149 Hammer they knew. Thats why the planning for the landings were halfhearted at best

@alphacentary

4 жыл бұрын

fus149 Hammer Well that and the British had an actual Navy where the Germans did not. U-boats are effective at attacking merchant shipping but do little next to full fledged fleets and aircraft carriers. Most of the German Battleships were simply raiders and would flee if Confronted with matching firepower. Battle damage for German ships was to be avoided at all costs due to limited safe harbor docks. They also had no aircraft carriers to speak of. To field a D Day style landing on English soil without a proper Navy would be nearly impossible.

Monty was right...the Germans would have just bypassed those guns.

@Vollification

6 жыл бұрын

Blah b Not to mention the lack of a proper fleet and local airsupport (vital to the blitzkreig-doctrine), any landing they made (if they got trough) would be harassed 24/7 by naval guns and local airforces that could run in shifts.

@oam6626

6 жыл бұрын

Blah b wrong. Seelöwe was not waged because the German navy was nothing compared to the British one, and the German airforce assigned to establish aerial superiority above Britain was lying at the bottom of the channel.

@terryneale8663

5 жыл бұрын

Of course he would, look up the lines of defence Churchill instigated. The largest defensive building project since Heny VIII. Any time you drive around Britain you'll see the odd pill box over looking a bridge. Sometimes you'll see a small funny window in the end wall of a building. Then you'll see the has a commanding view of a bridge of other choke point in the road.

@LoydAvenheart

5 жыл бұрын

The blitzkrieg existed it was really too different from Prussian maneuver warfare to be considered the same thing. Even Hitler and co considered it different.The word was a western made up thing though.

@captainnutsack8151

5 жыл бұрын

@ it had nothing to do with logistics. It was because Nazi Germany lacked a formidable surface fleet, and they were not able to gain air superiority in the BoB. Logistics were not an issue.

"Well he's wong"

@jimmorrison2657

3 жыл бұрын

Don't fuck with the wongs

I absolutely love this Churchill and Montgomery we're two of the most fascinating and contradictory people of World War II both men had good bad and in between characteristics they were terrible blunderers at times but it's a damn good thing we had both of them

@lyndoncmp5751

Жыл бұрын

I don't think Montgomery made any real blunders. Even Market Garden was worth trying, and did better than the other campaigns that same autumn such as the Lorraine, Hurtgen Forest etc.

Churchill was great for those witty comebacks. He had great success in life by learning to be a good comedian. Rather then react in a contradictory and harsh tone he he disarmed you with his wit.

great roll by a great actor amazing caracter performing

Churchhill was the man! Smart man. Exactly what Britain needed.

@lyndoncmp5751

3 ай бұрын

So was Montgomery.

Irish connections in this video clip: 1) The actor Playing Churchill is Irish = Brendan Gleeson 2) The actor playing Field Marshal Montgomery's is of Irish descent (his parents were Irish) = Patrick Malahide 3) The director of 'Into The Storm' is Irish = Thaddeus O'Sullivan 4) The real-life Field Marshal Montgomery was also of Irish descent, his family came from Donegal. Their ancestral home is still in Moville, Inishowen. 5) Sir Winston Churchill was the first colonel of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars 6) Sir Winston Churchill's father was private secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland 7) "Into the Storm" is a sequel to "The Gathering Storm" in which the actor who played Churchill, Albert Finney, is also of Irish descent.

@coolmacatrain9434

3 жыл бұрын

@Gelmir Curufin Well, maybe you should go and knock a statue or two down... see if that makes you feel any better.

@solomonreal1977

3 жыл бұрын

9) Churchill Irish 10) Irish Churchill 11) Churchirishhill - Irish = Churchill

@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935

3 жыл бұрын

Gleeson did the best *Michael Collins* in the TV movie 'The Treaty'.

@scotsbillhicks

3 жыл бұрын

I remember a programme celebrating Spike Milligan and one Irish celebrity querying how Spike could simultaneously claim to be pro-Irish and pro-British army...sigh.

So that's what the Fat Controler was doing before the end of the war.

@exsappermadman25055

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahahaha!......."Thomas was not amused with his new boss"......

@murilofurlan3479

4 жыл бұрын

@John Arat Really?

@exsappermadman25055

4 жыл бұрын

@John Arat Any more updates Sherlock?...

@exsappermadman25055

4 жыл бұрын

@John Arat Cheers.......

@exsappermadman25055

4 жыл бұрын

@@bobsemple7660 Hahahahahahaha......"Thomas was getting pissed off now".....

Oh I fell the freedom vibrating in my bones

Lunch a drink and a cigar sounds like a plan mr prime minister

Sir Winston Churchill. 🇬🇧🇬🇧♥️

What cracks me up about this scene is the “drink and smoke” bit. Even after getting what he wanted Montgomery manages to call the PM a fat slob in the most polite way possible and Churchill just lets it fly past him without getting worked up about it

@hoilst

4 жыл бұрын

There's a great story about how Churchill was told that Monty had captured a German general in North Africa, and that Monty would be having dinner with the high-value prisoner before he got shipped off to a camp. "My sympathies," said Churchill, "I too have dined with Monty."

@MrTVintro

4 жыл бұрын

Yea but Churchill basically told him to go fuck himself in the most polite way possible

@immortallvulture

3 жыл бұрын

Montgomery was very direct in the way he spoke, one of the reasons he was so disliked by just about everyone else. The reason he didn’t drink or smoke was due to shrapnel injuries he received in ww1.

@lyndoncmp5751

3 ай бұрын

@immortallvulture Montgomery was not disliked by just about everyone else. This is a myth. Montgomery was only really disliked by those on his command level or above. The overwhelming majority of people under his command either liked him or got on with him, including a number of prominent American commanders such as Simpson, Ridgway, Gavin, Collins and Hasbrouck etc.

The actor playing Churchill is in my opinion the very best I have seen.

Britain’s greatest WW2 hero was the English Channel.

@thevillaaston7811

3 жыл бұрын

So what was the USA? The 3,000 gap between the USA and the nearest enemy?

Brendan Gleeson played Churchill here and played Michael Collins in "the Treaty"

You can tell why they got along so well.

beautiful vid. :D

Both Monty and Sir Churchill are a match for each other, and can have a pleasant slugfest.

Patrick Malahide did a damn good job with Monty here. Mannerisms and speech very close, and of course, Gleeson always makes for a good Churchill.

Both Churchill and Eisenhower were The Right Men for the right time in history.

@michaeldorosh5047

5 жыл бұрын

Montgomery's appearance in the Western Desert just before El Alamein was also fortuitous.

@harrystuart4724

5 жыл бұрын

Michael, you are so correct. My comment was aimed solely at Operation Overlord. I have read on occasion the Eisenhower became undone with Field Marshal Montgomery thinking he moved too slowly. But his accomplished are there for all to see. I meant no disrespect sir.

@timphillips9954

3 жыл бұрын

But Eisenhower was two years late for the start, lol.

@lyndoncmp5751

3 ай бұрын

@harrystuart4724 Normandy came in ahead of schedule. Then Eisenhower too Montgomery's job of C-in-C of all ground forces on 1st September 1944 and Eisenhower moved much slower. Barely took 100km of ground in 6 months, and even got pushed back into a retreat in the Ardennes.

This is sooo EPIC!

I appreciate the accuracy to Montgomery 's medal ribbons; the 1914 star rosette is there (he was wounded at Le Cateau if I recall).

Also Montgomery: Operation Market Garden.

@lyndoncmp5751

3 жыл бұрын

You forgot Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Mareth, Medanine, Sicily, Normandy, Scheldt, Ardennes, Reichswald, Rhineland, Bremen etc. All great Montgomery success. Montgomery was the most successful Western Allied ground commander of WW2 by some way. Even Market Garden took nearly 100km of German held ground in 3 days. Only the air planning of it failed, and that had nothing to do with Monty. The air forces took over the air planning of Market Garden. Brereton, Williams and Hollinghurst.

damn that guy really nails the chruchill impression, especially the voice

@mightisright

7 жыл бұрын

I'm in training to be a Churchill impersonator I've gained the 200 hundred pounds, but now I'm struggling with the accent.

@ottoacid1800

7 жыл бұрын

That's Brendan Gleeson. Great actor, never puts in a bad performance. He was in Braveheart, In Bruges, Gangs of New York, Harry Potter, 28 Days Later. and a ton of other movies.

@fds7476

7 жыл бұрын

Lest we forget The Guard, Michel Collins and The Secret Of Kells.

@ottoacid1800

7 жыл бұрын

He was also the Pirate With Gout in "Pirates in an Adventure With Scientists"

@richardgrant7055

6 жыл бұрын

It's awful !!

Patrick Malahide and Breedan Gleeson - two superb actors

I have to see this movie.

Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery was responsible for the defeat of the Afrika Korps under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in North Africa. He was then given the responsibility for the planning of Operation Overlord. The invasion of mainland Europe in Normandy was planned and executed by Monty and his amazing staff. After WWII, the yanks lied in their teeth about Montgomery and his masterful handling of his soldiers. When the US forces, under the "G.I. General, Omar Bradley" were caught, fast asleep in the Ardennes Sector, Monty saved the day by his foresight. He positioned XXX Corps on the Bridges on the Seine.

@krisjill5918

4 жыл бұрын

@Real Thailand I was raised on the myth of Monty, especially through my grandparents, but over time, with a keen study of history, came to realise he wasn't all that and far from deserving the rep he acquired in the British imagination. Damn my friend, you shattered the remnant of the myth within me, by forcing a confrontation with what I knew but wished not to recognise in full closure. Oh well, we still had the genius of Dowding and Turin...Churchill was alright too, apparently.

@ryanhl484

4 жыл бұрын

Real Thailand while I agree with all that you have said the only thing I can challenge is the perception that Russia won the war, in the early years Russia was close to collapse they had lost so much men and equipment the fight was unsustainable the arctic convoys from Britain which are not spoke about enough kept russia supplied to fight I remember one story about a shipment of 1million pairs of boots being sent only for Stalin to complain saying they weren’t good enough but tanks planes trucks and oil etc were constantly shipped to keep them in the fight what annoys me is that even today Russia won’t acknowledge the convoys as important there is just one small statue at a port where they would unload supplies to commemorate them

@krisjill5918

4 жыл бұрын

@@ryanhl484 Fair point.

@ryanhl484

4 жыл бұрын

Real Thailand its a strange one to comprehend while historians as Expected will put the real truths of what happened political problems arise Russia’s relationship with the west after the war plays a big part in the downscaling of the effects of arctic convoys and allot of other things They had to be seen that they had no help from the west even overlord was a second front opened to keep Stalin happy allot was done to keep the Russians happy on the “west” part. Nothing like some war time controversy haha!

@ryanhl484

4 жыл бұрын

Real Thailand yeah I agree there was allot of distrust for good reason but also Stalin himself was not the best example of a man you could trust just ask yezhov he purged all his best officers before the war and put secret police in his cities to arrest anyone who had a different opinion than his. On the fronts that’s a really interesting way to look at it but the first front was Russia’s only front they had one line of resistance in their fight now if you look at the western powers as a seperate entity yes their first front was Italy as Africa was already dealt with the bombing front is not a real front as there was no line of resistance the Luftwaffe was basically finished after the Battle of Britain and the doorway to Germany was open in the air then moving to the acutely second front for the western powers Normandy but you are right if we are saying that the west and the reds were one fighting force

Anyone remember when most men had balls? Oh, how we need them more of them now.

@joeupton7058

7 жыл бұрын

David Rodgers they're labeled as radicals now. a little bit of propaganda, you can label anybody anything. it's sad.

@tuor6394

7 жыл бұрын

Is that a late Aprils fool joke? The Human mind is depreciating at an exponential rate. Humans are now on average thicker than we were 30 years ago. Man was actually at his intellectual peak during the classical period, when information had to be stored in the mind.

@redDL89

7 жыл бұрын

More intelligent, but perhaps less wise.

@tikletik

7 жыл бұрын

Brother, don't forget that the time when most men had balls was immediately preceded by the time when all the men in charge had no balls at all. Strong men make good times, good times produce weak men, weak men produce bad times, bad times produce strong men.

@mightisright

7 жыл бұрын

Haven't you heard? Men are women now and vice versa. It's all topsy turvy I'm afraid.

Haha!! Love it! New subbie here x

Gracias por este Video, Saludos desde Venezuela, Dios los Bendiga en el Nombre de Jesús.

This is the right actor for Churchill.

@theant9821

3 жыл бұрын

I like albert Finney as churchill in the gathering storm best.

Brendan Gleeson sounds exactly like him!

It's so true. Churchill drink, he smokes cigars, the only physically activity he had was laying brick to build a wall. And he lived at 80.

@gtaylor331

Жыл бұрын

Actually he lived to be 90.

Nobody like Brendan Gleeson pulled an outstanding Churchill Character.

@niklaskunsken8897

4 жыл бұрын

An irishman is playing the prime minister of England...

On so many levels, this is England at its very finest.

@fschiller4189

3 жыл бұрын

@laughinggravy2 No, I mean England.

@matthings4133

3 жыл бұрын

@@fschiller4189 lol

Hahaha love it

Gleeson is a great actor!

I love courage.

Difficult to play Churchill and Montgomery because both they were beyond normal. However this version of Churcill reminds me of Benny Hill.

Why is King Balon Greyjoy asking Mad-Eye Moody for buses? I feel like I missed a movie or two somewhere along the line...

These are nice actors

Great men!

Churchill was perfect for the time he was in. great statesman during the war.

@lyndoncmp5751

3 ай бұрын

Montgomery was perfect for the time too.

Funny what an existential crisis will do for bureaucracy. You want buses? Then you shall have them.

@davidtuer5825

3 жыл бұрын

Winston was never a bureaucrat, that's the point of the clip.

Fixed fortifications make sense at choke points and other key points, like Gov HQ, ammo dumps, factories (AA), airfields (AA), dams, Olso Fjord, rivers, key ports.

@marjanp

3 жыл бұрын

Only if you have air superiority, otherwise they're just a target practice.

Two men, thank god they were on are side.

Montgomery = the most successful Western Allied ground commander of WW2 by some way. Nobody else even comes close.

@laurencemoore3042

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, i agree. Hes underrated.

@TheTerribleGamer1

Жыл бұрын

The man beat Rommel 2 great tactical generals

@johndean4998

Жыл бұрын

Montgomery was responsible for the costly failure of Operation Market Garden (the Arnhem Landings) in September 1944, and a commander with a lower public profile and less support from Churchill would have been sacked over this. He was also deeply unpopular amongst the rank-and-file soldiers of the 8th Army (including my father). On the other hand, General William Slim, commander of the million-strong 14th Army in Burma 1943-45 (the 'Forgotten Fourteenth'), was probably the most successful British army commander of WW2.

@lyndoncmp5751

Жыл бұрын

@@johndean4998 No. Montgomery only came up with the broad outline for Market Garden. Eisenhower and Brereton (commander of First Allied Airborne Army) both liked the idea and gave it the go ahead. It was then taken over and planned by air commanders Brereton, Williams and Hollinghurst etc. They made the fatal decisions to only fly single missions on day one, distant drop zones etc. These are what killed the operation. Montgomery was extreme popular with the rank and file soldiers because he didn't throw their lives away recklessly. Market Garden was still the fastest allied advance against German opposition in the entire September 1944 to February 1945 period. 100km of German held ground taken in just 3 days. If Montgomery should have been sacked for Market Garden, then Patton or Bradley should have been sacked for the Metz/Lorraine folly and Hodges or Bradley should have been sacked for the Hurtgen Forest folly. Both were more costly failures than Market Garden and achieved less. Eisenhower should have been sacked for his broad front disaster and the Ardennes retreat. Montgomery warned Eisenhower on 28th November about the weak and thinly held American line just in front of the Ardennes. Eisenhower didn't listen and 100,000 American casualties were the result. Market Garden casualties = 15,000. GET IT IN PERSPECTIVE.

@lyndoncmp5751

Жыл бұрын

@@johndean4998 "General William Slim......." No, Montgomery was far more successful.

While Montgomery was a pompous ass, we have to agree he was an excellent military commander.

@chaptermastermoloc4171

5 жыл бұрын

At least he is in touch with the German tactics and strategy, unlike his colleagues who were stuck up on WW1 tactics and trenches. Just like Dowding who knows that wing formations and joint cooperation between fighter planes and pilots is the future. But overall IMO he's great because of the resources and opportunites he has. Just like Zhukov who both has the resources and manpower to do his bidding, Zhukov bogged the Germans on a war of attrition, a field the Germans could not hope to win. Montgommery has more resources, more manpower and weapons including tanks against the desert korps who has depleting resources, few manpower, and has to scrap weapons, tanks and resources. Not to mention they had incomptetent italian allies and the enigma code broken. Montgomery was expected to win in africa.

@chaptermastermoloc4171

5 жыл бұрын

@Big Bill O'Reilly explain market garden

@chaptermastermoloc4171

5 жыл бұрын

@Big Bill O'Reilly Big Bill O'Reilly It was a failure, It was far fetched and ridiculous even the Germans thought of how ridiculous Montgomery's Idea is. Montgomery was too optimistic about his plan and turned out to be a bust. Resources? It was never about resources, it was about the execution of the plan. They had the resources they needed, the plan was poorly executed, they were slow to execute, they failed to capture the bridges and the airborne batalions got captured. You overestimate Montgomery too much he can't even dispose of the Germans in Africa which were underpowered, outgunned, outresourced and has the enigma code broken. He's the type of General that would seat behind the back and do nothing and wait for a miracle to happen. In all his operations and actions he was never a risk taker and prefers safe options and when he did finally make a risk it turned out to be a massive failure. And lastly, after operation failure, Montgomery is nowhere to be found.

@chaptermastermoloc4171

5 жыл бұрын

@Big Bill O'Reilly when you can't win an argument so you insult people . Very piss poor indeed.

@chaptermastermoloc4171

5 жыл бұрын

@Big Bill O'Reilly you're the one who needs that tbh, not me.

Lady Astor: "Winston, if I were your wife, I'd put poison in your tea" Churchill: "And if I were your husband, I would drink it..."

good clip

I liked Brendan Gleeson performance here more than that of Gary Oldman.

@jamesthompson4148

3 жыл бұрын

Albert Finney was very good as. Churchill in the”Gathering Storm”

MY NAME IS ERIC HITTER AM A SURVIVOUR FROM THE NAZI ATROCITIES IN THE LAST WAR. I WANT TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE TO SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL THANKS TO HIM THAT I AM STILL ALIVE TODAY.. GOD BLESS HIS SOUL..

@nevanmasterson46

5 жыл бұрын

and may god bless you also, kind sir.

@user-dd8vo7or2d

4 жыл бұрын

What about the indians old man?

"Monty, where is your beret?"

Mad-Eye Moody vs Balon Greyjoy...epic

Montgomery would have been sacked by Eisenhower after Operation Goodwood if it had been politically possible.

@mr.tobacco1708

3 жыл бұрын

Market Garden and Goodwood shows the real skills of Montgomery, he wasn't a capable good general...He was very opposite of it. But everyone calls him great why? Because he managed to beat an army that was out of supply in Desert.

@alexbowman7582

3 жыл бұрын

Mr.Tobacco crossing the Rhine too he made a mess of that.

@robbie_

3 жыл бұрын

Goodwood actually achieved its objectives, particularly wrecking the German divisions in front of it and preventing them from heading over to face the USA.

@alexbowman7582

3 жыл бұрын

@@robbie_ Britain lost many tanks.

@mr.tobacco1708

3 жыл бұрын

@@robbie_ Is that why it made Eisenhower so bloody mad when he heard about it?

A meeting of two greats.

¡ QUE PERSONAS MAS RARAS ,!.

Churchill would go on to live to 90, truly savage

@ByddinRhyddidCymru

4 жыл бұрын

andrew baer Churchill would go on to starve 4 million Bengali’s to death, truly savage

@engasal

4 жыл бұрын

@@ByddinRhyddidCymru No one cares about starving savages

@ByddinRhyddidCymru

4 жыл бұрын

engasal then why did the cowardly prime minister cover up fat winstons little statue?

@johnnybeanz1296

4 жыл бұрын

And all that after getting run over by a cab crossing the street from Central Park in nyc.

@engasal

4 жыл бұрын

@@ByddinRhyddidCymru Johnson is not a coward. Idiots are trying to destroy any memorial to people who helped build the country. All leaders do shady stuff, often because it's necessary for the greater good. You can't deny history just because you don't like it. Churchill was a national hero and that will never change

Why does Churchcill remind me of a bulldog so much

@sidscrote2006

5 жыл бұрын

ALL baby's look like Winston Churchill when they are born!

@ByddinRhyddidCymru

4 жыл бұрын

Eric Sterling because he’s a fat, arrogant, angry little creature

@laistvan2

4 жыл бұрын

In this scene he looks like Chaplin, who but being old, smoker, and obese(especially that awful hat).

@tomthx5804

3 жыл бұрын

He reminds me of Gina Lollabridgeda

@davidtuer5825

3 жыл бұрын

@Michael Halligan He wrote A History of the English Speaking People and won a Nobel Prize, but yes he was dumb.

The Germans were so cunning they almost drilled an under tunnel to connect Britain with France. Oh wait..... that did happen

@davidhoward437

4 жыл бұрын

The Germans didn't build the tunnel, moron.

@stephenburnage7687

3 жыл бұрын

But blowing up a tunnel is 5 minutes work. Not really a viable way of invading Britain.

@TheMan-jw5ro

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidhoward437 You're right, the Germans did not build it. They did however, use German machinery( I think that was what he was getting at with the original post). And the project was finished with the help of a company from the old U.S. of A. No, I am not saying that America built it, but Eurotunnel hired Bechtel (the fore mentioned Company from the U.S.) to get the project back on track. But not for your comment I wouldn't have known that. However, I did know it was German machinery though from an Episode of QI. This is not meant to be demeaning or condescending.

What is dead may never die!!

The reason he didn't smoke or drink was because in the first world war he was shot in the chest and lost half of one lung, and then got a bayonet wound in the gut and had a third of his stomach taken out. He didn't care if any of his staff officers smoked as long as they didn't do it around him. If someone wanted a 48 hour weekend pass to go on a bit of a bender he was OK with that, but they better be sober and ready for duty come Monday morning.

@lyndoncmp5751

Жыл бұрын

Brilliantly put 👍

How come Churchill, here, looks like he's constipated.

@feliscorax

4 жыл бұрын

He smoked cigars like they were kippers and drank whiskey for breakfast, lunch, and tea. If he wasn’t constipated after that... Also what Phyllis Brady said.

@tomthx5804

3 жыл бұрын

English food during the war was very bad.

@rascallyrabbit717

3 жыл бұрын

Churchill didn't poop until the Americans were in the war

1:00 WELL HE'S WONG!

@jimmy2k4o

3 жыл бұрын

I suspect churchill liked his confidence and arrogance.

When he said WE will fight on the battlefields did he mean YOU as he apparently was in the Underground smoking cigars and eating caviar 😂😂😂

Let's get this to 1m views family!