Written by General Kitson, one of the few surviving British generals with extensive combat experience Concise, readable biography of Britain's only military dictator 'This brief, lucid book is the shrewdest and most congenial introduction to its subject that I know.' Guardian Review
Commissioned into the Army soon after the war, he rose to become Commander-in-Chief of UK Land Forces at the end of a 40-year military career. He commanded an armoured division in Germany and deal with civil revolts in Kenya, Malaya, Oman, Cyprus and Northern Ireland. He was Commandant of the School of Infantry and of the Staff College. His previous books include two on Prince Rupert of the Rhine. General Sir Frank Kitson currently lives in Yelverton, Devon.
What brings freshness to Kitson's account, and the confidence to question accepted wisdom, is his capacity for viewing a terrain, and for weighing options, through the fighters' eyes... This brief and lucid book is the shrewdest and most congenial introduction to its subject that I know. - THE GUARDIAN - Blair WordenHe has produced a wonderfully perceptive study of Cromwell's military talents, engagingly written and cogently argued. What price a top-five finish if Kitson, and not Richard Holmes, had put Cromwell's case on Great Britons? - THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
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