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Explanation: In WW2, there was some amount of tension between several of the major leaders in the Western Allies. Many of the leading generals were... divas, honestly; self-important, temperamental, and unwilling to share the 'spotlight'. The British Field Marshal Montgomery (right, known as Monty) and American General Patton are two of the more famous such divas. Poor Eisenhower, the commander-in-chief of Allied forces, was a very even-keeled man, and tasked with reining all these weirdos in!
... Market Garden was one of Monty's plans that consisted primarily of feeding Allied paratroopers to entrenched Nazi forces.
It was not a success.