Plumer
The Soldiers' General
Published on 31. December 1990
350 pages
978-1-78383-794-6 (ISBN)
Description
Sir Herbert Plumer stood out as an archetypal Colonel Blimp - smart to a fault, white hair, white moustache, pot-belly. But his appearance belies the fact that he was one of the best-performing and best-regarded officers on the Allied side. Plumer's crowning glories were the attack on Messines Ridge in 1917 and his successful implementation of the 'bite and hold' strategy that contributed so much to final victory. Plumer destroyed all his papers, but the author has meticulously researched this biography, and has written a lucid account of this undeservedly neglected hero which throws fresh light on generalship on the Western Front.
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Glossary
- Preface
- 1 Regimental Officer
- 2 Matabele Rebellion
- 3 The Boer War
- 4 General Officer
- 5 Second Ypres
- 6 Army Commander
- 7 Messines: The Preparations
- 8 Messines: The Battle
- 9 Third Ypres
- 10 Italy: The Reluctant Commander- in-Chief
- 11 Victory
- 12 The Rhineland and Malta
- 13 Palestine
- 14 The Last Years
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
