- 1961 second edition, 96 pages
- Published by Collins, UK
- Hardcover with dust jacket, red boards
- Good condition, moderate age wear, soiling to dust jacket. Minor foxing
Illustrated. When Lord Wavell died in 1950, he left behind him an anthology of verse but no published diaries, no memoirs of his achievements in the war or of his life as Viceroy.
And yet there are many, particularly those who served under him, who consider Wavell to have been the greatest British general of this century. He held the most difficult commands of the last war with courage and brilliance: at one time, while C.-in-C. Middle East, he was conducting operations on four different fronts simultaneously.
Bernard Fergusson was twenty-three, a subaltern in the Black Watch, when he was offered to Wavell as A.D.C. When they met, Fergusson said that he had never been an A.D.C before and might make an awful mess of it. "Well," replied the other, "I've never had an A.D.C. before; I may make an awful mess of you". That was in 1934, the start of a friendship that lasted until Wavell's death sixteen years later, when he was Colonel of the Black Watch and Bernard Fergusson its commanding officer.
This book is more than a record of that friendship: it is a memorable portrait of a great soldier as he appeared to an officer in his own regiment. Wavell stands out from every page, a magnetic and wonderfully attractive figure,
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