The General by C S Forester

The General by C S Forester

The book John Kelly reads every time he gets a promotion to remind him of the perils of hubris, the pitfalls of patriotism and duty unaccompanied by critical thinking The most vivid, moving and devastating word-portrait of a World War One British commander ever written, here re-introduced by Max Hastings.

‘A superb novelIt blends Forester's preference for military subjects and solid unreflective characters, his irony, his grasp of history and his gift for lean, hypnotic narrative’ New York Times

‘Confirms Forester’s rightful place as one of the finest novelists of his generation’ Max Hastings

‘The most penetrating and subtle study of a Regular army officer that I have ever read’ Observer

‘A portrait for all time of an individual in his period’ H.G. Wells

C. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899. After studying medicine, he rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. On the outbreak of World War Two he worked for the British Ministry of Information in America writing propaganda. His most notable works were the twelve Horatio Hornblower books, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and ‘The African Queen’. His novels ‘A Ship of the Line’ and ‘Flying Colours’ were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. He died in 1966.

Max Hastings is the author of several books, many about warfare. The most recent is the bestselling and critically acclaimed ‘Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914’. In his early career as a correspondent, he reported on the 1982 Falklands War, experiences which he described in his memoir ‘Going to the Wars’. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of King's College London, he was knighted in 2002.

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ISBN 13	9780007580071
ISBN 10	000758007X
Title	The General
Author	C S Forester
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2015-02-26
Number of pages	320
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