FIELD MARSHALL SIR MICHAEL CARVER BEGAN HIS CAREER IN ROYAL TANK CORPS IN 1935. HE SERVED IN N. AFRICA, ITALY AND IN THE INVASION OF NORMANDY 1944.

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Editor's introduction /Michael Carver -- Jellicoe / A. Temple-Patterson -- Joffre / André Beaufre -- Haig / John Terraine -- Hindenburg / Norman Stone -- Petain / Alistair Horne -- Ludendorff / Norman Stone -- Hamilton / Robert Rhodes James -- Kemal / Lord Kinross -- Von Falkenhayn / Alistair Horne -- Foch / André Beaufre -- Monash / Malcolm Falkus -- Allenby / Anthony Farrar-Hockley -- Pershing / Donald Smythe -- Trenchard / Gavin Lyall -- Von Rundstedt / Andreas Hillgruber -- Dowding / Gavin Lyall -- Wavell / Bernard Fergusson -- Von Manstein / Albert Seaton -- Zhukov / John Erickson -- Auchinleck / Correlli Barnett -- Rommel / Charles Douglas-Home -- Koniev / John Erickson -- Guderian / John Strawson -- Harris / Martin Middlebrook -- Alexander / Nigel Nicolson -- Stilwell / Riley Sunderland -- Mountbatten / Ronald Brockman -- Slim / Geoffrey Evans -- Yamamoto / Roger Pineau -- Nimitz / Henry H. Adams -- Macarthur / Stephen E. Ambrose -- Halsey / James Bassett -- Spruance / Henry H. Adams -- Cunningham : Doenitz / Peter Kemp -- Tedder / Christopher Foxley Norris -- Montgomery / Ronald Lewin -- Eisenhower / Don Cook -- Bradley / Forrest C. Pogue -- Patton / Martin Blumenson -- Spaatz / Alfred Goldberg -- Freyberg / Dan Davin -- Juin / Adolphe Goutard.