Title: The
General
Author: C.S. Forester
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 234
Content: This classic challenges the reader
to look beyond the obvious and to see how environment plays a critical role in
the development of leaders. It traces the career of a 19th/20th
century British officer paying particular attention to the period of the First
World War. His experiences, both military and civilian, play a pivotal role in
how he conducts himself in the horror of trench warfare, how he looks at
tactics and his understanding and comfort with new innovation. It is easy to
write him off as a typical leader of his time, narrowly focussed and arrogant,
but that would miss the critical advantages these traits provided him while at
the same time severely handicapping his leadership ability. Nothing is as easy
or as clear as it seems at first blush and this study is one of the finest
examples of this for the military leader.
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