num_pages: 384
description: John Keegan has assembled a cast of seventeen generals whose reputations were made (and some of them broken) by Churchill and the Second World War.Churchill's reputation as prime minister during the Second World War fluctuated according to the successes and failures of his generals. Most of them were household names, and often heroes, during the war years. All of them were prey to the intolerance, interference, irascibility - and the inspiration - of the man who wanted to be both the general in the field and the presiding strategic genius. He sacked his warlords ruthlessly, yet in the end he came to be served by perhaps the greatest generals this country has ever produced.Includes chapters on Wavell, Ironside, Ritchie, Auchinleck, Montgomery, Alexander, Percival, Wingate, Slim and Carton de Wiart. The Publisher regrets that the biographical note for Gary Sheffield is incorrect in the book. Please refer to the Orion website (www.orionbooks.co.uk) for the correct version.
language: English
title: Churchill's Generals
titlecomplete: Churchill's Generals (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
characters: Oliver Leese, John Dill, Claude Auchinleck, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Arthur Percival, Edward Spears, Orde Wingate, Neil Ritchie, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Percy Hobart, Bernard Montgomery, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Henry Maitland Wilson, Adrian Carton de Wiart, Richard O'Connor, Alan Cunningham, Brian Horrocks
genres: Biography, Military Fiction, War, Nonfiction, British Literature, History, Military History, World War II, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 166
publisher: Phoenix