--- description: Cromwellian, unrhetorical General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery characteristically addressed his troops in England: ¶ "I never put an army into battle until I am quite certain it is going to be... title: World Battlefronts: Fed Up image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # World Battlefronts: Fed Up by [TIME](/author/time/) Feb 14, 1944 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Feb 14, 1944 4:00 AM CUT Cromwellian, unrhetorical General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery characteristically addressed his troops in England: ¶ “I never put an army into battle until I am quite certain it is going to be a good show. Never. We will not have any question of any failure. If there is any question, we will not start. . . .” ¶ “This war began a long while ago. I am getting fed up with the thing. I think it is nearly time we finished it.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6821601/world-battlefronts-fed-up/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6821601/world-battlefronts-fed-up/"},"headline":"World Battlefronts: Fed Up","datePublished":"1944-02-14T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-13T05:03:56.190Z","description":"Cromwellian, unrhetorical General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery characteristically addressed his troops in England: ¶ \"I never put an army into battle until I am quite certain it is going to be...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6821601/world-battlefronts-fed-up/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6821601/world-battlefronts-fed-up/","name":"World Battlefronts: Fed Up"}}]}] ```