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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...
...McNamara and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Earle Wheeler. A surprise passenger was 17-year-old Kathy Westmoreland, the general's oldest daughter and a student at Washington's National Cathedral School. En route separately were Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Maxwell Taylor...
...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 personality and a great general who executed an outstanding military masterpiece in World...
...reward for his services, Allenby was buried in Westminster Abbey. Yet nowadays, says Author Gardner, the staff of the abbey often cannot recall the site of his grave, which is "customarily half hidden under a row of chairs...