[Strategerist]

They weren’t annihilated like the British 1st Airborne, however.

[Spktyr]

True. Monty was forever in love with the concept of the deep strike and what we now call vertical envelopment, wasn’t he?

[SlapHappyPappy]

The British 1st Airborne took heavy casualties because of Monty’s tendency to make sure British troops got the glory assignments.

In this sense, we can drop the “l” from glory.