Winston Churchill (left), with Field Marshals Sir Alan Brooke (the Chief of the Imperial General Staff) and Montgomery (right), taking lunch on the western bank of the Rhine, 24th March. Despite the seemingly tranquil setting, this side of the river was under enemy fire at the time. Churchill's presence on the battlefield was an annoyance to Montgomery, who had never welcomed visiting celebrities in the vanguard of the advance, and a worry to Brooke, who believed that Churchill had come with the deliberate intention of exposing himself to as much enemy fire as possible, in the hope that he might be shot down in his moment of triumph, like some hero of antiquity.