- 1959 first edition, 306 pages
- Published by Michael Joseph , London
- Hardcover with dust jacket, black boards
- Good condition, moderate age wear to dust jacket, boards. Name, address on free front end.. Some tanning.
The Experiences of General Sir Leslie Hollis K.C.B; K.B.E. Illustrated, index included.
War at the Top is not simply the memoirs of yet another General, nor is it just a further book about the war.
This is a book about people - the people who took the decisions on which victory rested; what happened behind the scenes at the great international conferences - which were never so smooth as the offical communiques would have us believe - and at the daily top level meetings in the strange, armoured headquarters carved out of the cellars underneath Whitehall.
This is a frank and fascinating story of soldiers, statesmen and world leaders seen by one privleged to sit in at most of the major policy discussions of the war: General Sir Leslie Hollis, K.C.B; K.B.E. As Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet and the Chiefs of Staff Committee he was privy to all the great decisions, and attended more than 6,000 of the meetings of the Chiefs of Staff.
War at the Top is an essential companion to the Churchill, Alanbrooke and Montgomery memoirs; for the first time the personal factors of the great decisions are discussed and analysed. Here is the new face of history and the last 20 years, fantastic , sometimes almost unbelievable, frequently ludicrous, always moving, a picture of war - at the top.
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