Jonathan Bratten

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318 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6 Apr

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Dan Snow's History Hit · The Commanders: The Best of the Rest · 6 Apr 2026 podcast

But that's the level of command that he's entrusted with, and he does a very good job with it.

And composed of multiple different nationalities and dealing with field commanders like a Patton and dealing with partners like a Montgomery.

And as an army group, I mean, you're responsible almost for half of Europe.

It's absolutely unreal.

And then adding to this, of course, he is the one responsible for the operational command of Overlord and D-Day.

And then the Cobra breakout once they're in Normandy.

in that drive across France where he's running into all sorts of problems like

Charles de Gaulle comes to mind.

And what are the Free French going to do around decisions like giving up Strasbourg after you've taken it?

And how do you be that good coalition commander?

And that's by rule by consensus, for lack of a better term, being able to work across the barriers rather than exacerbate the barriers and make them worse.

So he plays a major role in how the U.S.

Army actually comes out of World War II as well, because he's going to go on to be chief of staff and oversee the army in some real phases of transition that are very familiar to the army that we see today.

So one could almost say that Bradley helps build the modern U.S.

Army in addition to his wartime exploits.

Oh, God, yes.

And then coming from, as you say, almost a nobody, I don't know that there's anyone who sort of rises out from obscurity to become this household name in what we're too like to call does simply by virtue of the fact that he gets out after the fall of France, he gets the UK, establishes himself as the spokesperson for

for France.

A really remarkable thing considering that there is, you know, another whole other French government, granted it's Pétain's Vichy regime.

I am France.

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