Johnny · the Legend and Tragedy of General Sir Ian Hamilton by Jones, John Philip -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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By the same author Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Dedication Foreword - by General Sir Roger Wheeler GCB CBE Chief of the General Staff and professional head of the British Army, 1997 – 2000 Prologue CHAPTER 1 - Military Reputations

The Tragic Hero The Forbidding Peninsula Notes

CHAPTER 2 - Apprenticeship

‘Gone for a Soldier’ The Gay Gordons ‘The Land of Regrets’ Notes

CHAPTER 3 - Beau Sabreur

The Military Pyramid The ‘Sharp End’ Notes

CHAPTER 4 - ‘No End of a Lesson’

Army Reforms at Last Worthy Foes Disaster on the ‘Hill of Doves’ Fred Roberts Remembers Notes

CHAPTER 5 - Emerging from the Chrysalis

‘The Refreshment of Adventure’ The ‘Roberts Ring’ Notes

CHAPTER 6 - ‘The Last of the Gentlemen’s Wars’ and How it Degenerated

Two Encounters and Three Lessons ‘Fortified Towns are Now Liable to Destruction’ Notes

CHAPTER 7 - Learning from Their Own Mistakes

Across the Veldt with the Mounted Infantry The Second Phase of the War: A Double Degeneration Notes

CHAPTER 8 - Observer of a Distant War

The First Large Twentieth Century War General Kuroki Carries the Honour of Japan General Oyama in Command The Russo-Japanese War as a Precursor What Hamilton Learned Forgotten Lessons from a Distant War Notes

CHAPTER 9 - An Abortive War of Words

Roberts Versus Haldane Notes

CHAPTER 10 - ‘Corpses Lined Up Like Rows of Broad-Beans’

Germany’s Eyes Turn South-East ‘The Attack on Turkey holds the Field’ ‘You Are to Have Command’ Hamilton’s Choice of the Least Bad Alternative Five Beaches and Fifteen Victoria Crosses Enemy Trenches Twenty Yards Away The Last Roll of the Dice Three Questions Revisited Notes

CHAPTER 11 - Military Philosopher

The Crystal Ball Organization, Discipline, Training Command The Legacy Notes

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