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    Generals And Generalship
    Generals And Generalship
    Generals And Generalship
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    Generals And Generalship

    By Field-Marshal Earl Wavell and Field Marshal Sir John Dill

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    Field Marshal Wavell was one of the most successful British Army commanders of the Second World War, often given the toughest assignments, usually greatly outnumbered and with few resources. In this short volume he shares the distilled wisdom on the qualities, mental, moral and political that are necessary for successful leadership.

    A long forgotten classic of military thought and leadership.

    “These lectures by General Wavell […] show very clearly how he and the army under his direction have gained their great victories in Africa and why they will gain others. For these lectures, though delivered over two years ago, could only have been delivered by a man capable of winning and keeping the confidence of all men in all walks of life. They deal with the relationships between man and man, on which must be founded both the success of an army and the success of a whole nation at war. I am glad indeed to think that they will have a wide audience, and particularly among soldiers, for whom they have deep lessons.”—From Foreword by Field Marshal John Dill
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVerdun Press
    Release dateJan 18, 2016
    ISBN9781786258199
    Generals And Generalship
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    Field-Marshal Earl Wavell

    Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell was a senior commander in the British Army. He served in the Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the Great War as well as the Second World War, initially as Commander-in-Chief Middle East. He led British forces to victory over the Italians in western Egypt and eastern Libya during Operation Compass in December 1940, only to be defeated by the German army in the Western Desert in April 1941. He subsequently served as Commander-in-Chief, India, from July 1941 until June 1943 and then as Viceroy of India until his retirement in February 1947.

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      Generals And Generalship - Field-Marshal Earl Wavell

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      Text originally published in 1941 under the same title.

      © Pickle Partners Publishing 2015, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

      Publisher’s Note

      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      GENERALS AND GENERALSHIP:

      THE LEES KNOWLES LECTURES DELIVERED AT TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE IN 1939

      BY

      GENERAL SIR ARCHIBALD WAVELL

      WITH A FOREWORD BY

      GENERAL SIR JOHN DILL

      Chief of the Imperial General Staff

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR 5

      FOREWORD 6

      I—THE GOOD GENERAL 7

      II—THE GENERAL AND HIS TROOPS 13

      III—THE SOLDIER AND THE STATESMAN 19

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 24

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      GENERAL WAVELL learnt his soldiering in his family regiment, The Black Watch, with which he served in South Africa and in India. Before the last Great War he passed top into the Staff College, and was attached to the Russian Army. When war broke out he first saw service in France, where he was severely wounded, and afterwards on a mission to the Russian Army.

      In 1917, when General Sir Edmund Allenby took over command of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Lieut.-Colonel Wavell was appointed Liaison Officer between his command and the War Office. In that capacity he took back Allenby’s plan for the offensive known as the Third Battle of Gaza to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, for the approval of Whitehall.

      In the following year there was a reorganization of staffs in Palestine and he was appointed Chief General Staff officer (Brigadier-General, General Staff) to Sir Philip Chetwode, commanding the XX Corps. He afterwards became B.G.G.S. to General Allenby himself, giving up that appointment in 1920.

      After further service in Cologne and at the War Office, he was on the staff of the 3rd Division, where he trained for war under the original and brilliant mind of General Burnett-Stuart. He was next commander of the 6th Brigade, known as the Experimental Infantry Brigade. After this he went on half pay for a year, during which he compiled the latest version of Field Service Regulations. He also made a reconnaissance of the

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