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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The subject of this biography-welcome but overdue as is the British way-was the Guderian and in some ways also the Rommel of the British Army. Significantly both these two great leaders of the German Panzer Forces regarded him admiringly as their exemplar and the prime practitioner of the technique they applied. Yet also in the British way he was never given such opportunity of command in war as they obtained although before they even emerged he had made an outstanding mark on the development of armoured forces everywhere. But he went on to become the main influence on the further developments that became decisive in the final stage of the war. Christened Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart he disliked his primary baptismal name Percy and only readopted it in deference to his mother on being knighted. His family and intimate friends called him ‘Patrick’ while in the Royal Tank Corps and throughout the Army he was always known as ‘Hobo’. The variety of names aptly symbolised his diversity in unity. That complexity of personality makes him a difficult subject to portray in a biography but Ken Macksey has come to understand his hero remarkably well. (SP)