THE GOOD SOLDIER
SOLDIERS AND SOLDIERING, by Field Marshal Earl Wavell; Jonathan Cape. English price, 8/6. HEN Wavell some 50 years ago decided to become a soldier, the headmaster of Winchester wrote to his father expressing his regret. "I do not think,’ he wrote, "that you need take this extreme step, since I believe that your son has sufficient brains to make his "way in other walks of life." This small book of 174 pages would itself have justified his headmaster’s confidence even had he known nothing of his pupil’s outstanding military career. Compiled by Wavell’s son, Soldiers and Soldiering is a collection of essays, articles, lectures, and reviews written between 1930 and 1950, the last written during the illness shortly before his death. The essays cover such topics 4s the good general and the good soldier, the relationship between the soldier and the politician, night attacks, co-opera-tion with one’s allies, and a appreciation of military genius as illustrated by the great commanders of history and their battles; among the books reviewed are Desmond Young’s Rommel and Field Marshal Montgomery’s story of the invasion of Europe. All show Wavell’s wide knowledge of military his-tory-ancient, Biblical and modern. They show also his humanity and sound common sense, an alert mind ready with anecdote and homely analogy from sport and everyday life to make’ his points sharp and clear. His writing was always as concise and soldierly as his clipped military moustache.
W.A.
G.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 734, 7 August 1953, Page 12
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242THE GOOD SOLDIER New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 734, 7 August 1953, Page 12
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