The biography of the General known as Britains answer to Rommel one of the most popular and charismatic of WW2 generals, a cult figure.
Traces the course of this hugely costly 1915 battle, using thhe words of survivors.
In 1941 the Allied forces in the Pacific were devastatingly unprepared for the onslaught of the Japanese Army, which by this time had been fighting for ten years on the Manchurian front.