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Great Contemporaries: Claude Auchinleck, Soldier of the Raj (Part 2)
16
Sep
2021
By RAYMOND A. CALLAHAN
London has no statue of Claude Auchinleck, the man who stopped Rommel and the last commander of the Indian Army. Perhaps there should be one.
Great Contemporaries: Archibald Wavell, Man of Silences (Part 2)
29
Jul
2021
By RAYMOND A. CALLAHAN
Churchill believed any obstacle could be surmounted, while Wavell prepared for the worst. Both traits had served Britain well.
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The Todman Duology: Plus ça Change, The Churchill Narrative Survives
31
Dec
2020
By RAYMOND A. CALLAHAN
Scholarship accumulates and sources multiply, Todman writes. The perspective of Churchill’s memoirs persists—if sometimes heavily qualified.
Great Contemporaries: Alan Brooke, the Thoroughbred Professional
19
Dec
2020
1
By CHRISTOPHER C. HARMON
Still visible above swirls of pettiness, heroes remain: Brooke, the great general; above him, looming ever larger, the man who saved liberty.
“Marshall: The Man of the Age” – edited by Mark Stoler & Daniel Holt
08
Jul
2016
By PATRICK GARRITY
George Marshall’s stature among Americans of the mid-twentieth century is easily forgotten today. He had his critics—the MacArthur men in the Army and, later, some rabid anti-communists—but, in his role as Army Chief of Staff and principal military advisor to President Roosevelt, he was acclaimed as the “organizer of victory” in World War II. In his Nobel Lecture, he acknowledged his “inability to express myself with the power and penetration of the great Churchill.”