Military Maverick : Selected Letters and War Diary of 'Chink' Dorman-Smith

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Pen & Sword Books Ltd Jun 2025, 2025

1036102270 / 9781036102272

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Neuware - 'Historians and readers with an interest in the Western Desert campaign and the British army in the Second World War are well-served by the publication of this documents volume. The editor has done a good job in selecting materials for inclusion and providing explanatory text and end notes for people, places, and other clarifications.' - A Blog on Winston ChurchillA follow-up to the best-selling biography 'Chink', this selection from private letters and intimate war diary has the impact of a fresh 'no holds barred' autobiography. Dorman-Smith the man - flesh and blood - comes alive here on the page.Provocative, irreverent, caustic and witty, his disdain for Churchill - and for the Establishment in general - increases as his military career unravels. Egotistical Yes. Arrogant Certainly. His own worst enemy Perhaps. But Dorman Smith's grasp of tactics and strategy was unsurpassed, as his exchanges with Basil Liddell-Hart demonstrate.Full of contradictions, he was externally reserved and inwardly super-sensitive. Growing up in style in Ireland and educated at public school in England, his religion was Catholic and he scorned any Anglo-Irish tag. His private life while rising up the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers proved colourful, while a brief dalliance with the IRA in the 1950s never endangered his vow of silence over the Enigma/Ultra secret.This book gives a marvellous picture of personal war experience in two world wars, from RMC Sandhurst and life in the trenches, via the Staff College to high command in Egypt and India between the wars, until service in North Africa under Wavell began, and working side by side with Auchinleck at the First Battle of Alamein. That would lead to confrontation with Churchill and Brooke, and subsequent breakout from Anzio under fire. Readers will know what it was like to survive the trenches, to serve in HQ as crises arose, and to have command involving losses - the reality of war is dramatic and moving.The First Battle of Alamein, fought under Auchinleck in the emergency that dangerous summer of 1942, was to be followed within three months by Montgomery's celebrated battle and its consequent fame. The important argument of Military Maverick, however, is that First Alamein was the real turning point in the Desert War, and that makes Dorman Smith's account even more valuable.The letters and diary entries are linked by commentary and explanation by the editor Lavinia Greacen, and by the military historian John Lee.…

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Titolo
Military Maverick : Selected Letters and War Diary of 'Chink' Dorman-Smith
Autore
Lavinia Greacen
Editore
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Jun 2025
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Buch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1036102270
ISBN 13
9781036102272
Peso dell'articolo
588 grammi
Dimensioni
242x164x36 mm

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