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ALLENBY OF ARABIA, by Brian Gardner. An eloquent and meticulous biography of Sir Edmund Allenby, the great British general whose Palestine campaign knocked Turkey out of World...
ALLENBY OF ARABIA, by Brian Gardner. Lawrence of Arabia is more famous today, but Allenby of Arabia was a much greater soldier, or so Historian Gardner says, and he demonstrates the proposition with eloquence and scholarship in a biography of Sir Edmund Allenby that includes a superb description of his military masterpiece: the Palestine campaign that knocked Turkey out of World...
None of the reviews rankled so much as the one that his "old friend" Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, 70, wrote...
...Died. Edmund Morgan, 87, longtime (1925-50) Harvard law professor, who in 1948 headed the commission that drew up the first Uniform Code of Military Justice, replacing the often conflicting Army Articles of War and the Articles for the Government of the Navy; of arteriosclerosis; in Santa Monica, Calif...
When General Sir Edmund Allenby died at 75 in 1936, the New York Times composed a reverent fanfare of farewell: "None who held high command will be so long remembered in the English-speaking world." Yet less than 30 years later, the object of this adulation is remembered only vaguely as a World War I Blimp attached by chance to a much more colorful and important object: Lawrence of Arabia. Such an impression, says Historian Brian Gardner (The Year That Changed the World: 1945), is ludicrously inadequate. In this sound and vigorous biography, he demonstrates that Allenby was a grand...