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The General

C S Forester

出版	Amereon Limited, 1997-09
主題	Biography & Autobiography / MilitaryFiction / GeneralHistory / Wars & Conflicts / World War I
ISBN	08919060969780891906094
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=N7oHOwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Herbert Curzon is a former cavalry officer who earned fortuitous distinction in the Boer War. He knew little then; he learned nothing since. But the army, desperate for officers in the opening months of WW I, hands Curzon, a new division to train. A few months later his formations dissolve at the Somme, hosed down by German machine guns. Uninstructed, Curzon still thinks himself a leader. When a German offensive threatens his remaining troops, he gallops suicidally into the fighting. He prefers death to self-knowledge.