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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. No notes or highlighting. Lovely copy. pullout maps present. Year 1938. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> With a simplicity and sincerity character- istic of Lord Plumer himself the author of this book has given an account of the personality and achievements of that great Soldier and Administrator. I can add but little to what he has written. But I deem it a privilege to be allowed in this Foreword to commend the record of a noble life and to give my own testi- mony to the inspiring example of a friend for whom in common with all who knew him I had a very real admiration and affection. Our friendship began at York when he was appointed to the Northern Command. I well re- member how on the outbreak of the War he strained at the leash which bound him to his duty at home and how eager he was when the summons came to him to go to the front”” attired in sudden brightness like a man inspired.”” When for some weeks in the summer of 1917 I visited all the British Armies in France and Flanders I was his guest at Cassel. It was shortly after the battle of Messines-perhaps the most complete single victory in the long struggle. I felt at once the atmosphere of trust and of devotion to him- self which he had created around his Staff. They seemed indeed one proud and happy family of which he was in his quiet and decisive way the centre. In many talks with his men in hospital. (SP)