Wafted to India
Richard Gott: Unlucky Wavell, 5 October 2006
Wavell: Soldier and Statesman
by Victoria Schofield.
Murray, 512 pp., £30, March 2006,0 7195 6320 8 Show More
by Victoria Schofield.
Murray, 512 pp., £30, March 2006,
“... his innate caution in strategic affairs, his lack of ruthlessness when dealing with his political masters, and his frequent inability to communicate with them adequately – defects well brought out in this book – make it understandable that his undoubted talents were so regularly dispensed with. Wavell’s significance today lies less in his dispiriting ... ”