I finally got round to reading this book that I have had for years. An interesting read and not what I had expected. Rather than promoting the "good bits" it is a "warts and all" review of significant hinge points in history (see below, the story so far Monck (positive though side-switching), Marlborough (positive though politically complicated) and Howe (mainly negative - we did lose the American colonies after all) and currently reading about the Duke of York (frustratingly bad in battle but used his royal position to push through organisational change of the staff and officer training) .. Wellington next):
A good read in these Covid times.
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