Montgomery wanted to concentrate the bulk of the allied front on a narrow front, a rapier thrust to the heart of Germany. Montgomery's sense of his own destiny made the idea of a rapier thrust led by him particularly attractive: the idea of Patton's army advancing on a narrow front would almost certainly have seemed to him less appealing.
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