Rommel As a Military Commander (Pen & Sword Military Classics) by Ronald Lewin
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Plumer:
The Soldier's General (Pen & Sword Military Classics) by Geoffrey
Powell Book Description: First World War Generals tend to have dubious reputations
and in group photographs of the High Command on the Western Front, one
figure stands out as an archetypal Colonel Blimp - smart to a fault, white
hair, white moustache, pot-belly. This was Sir Herbert Plumer.
But his appearance belies the fact that he was one of the best-performing
and best-regarded officers on the Allied side. He was famously thoughtful
of his men and sparing of their lives. Though he never got on with Haig
(Plumer had, as an examiner, given Haig low marks at Staff College) and
although Haig considered removing him, Plumer proved indispensable during
the great German offensive of March 1918.
Plumer's crowning glories were the attack on Messines Ridge in 1917
and his successful implementation of the Ôbite and holdÕ strategy that
contributed so much to final victory.
Lord Plumer of Messines, as he became, destroyed all his papers, but
the distinguished Historian Geoffrey Powell has meticulously researched
this biography, and has written a lucid account of this undeservedly neglected
hero which throws fresh light on generalship on the Western Front.
Paperback from Pen & Sword
Book Published: March, 2004
