Recommendations from our site
“This is a book that has been largely forgotten but which I very strongly recommend to anybody who wants to understand the First World War. It’s very short. C S Forester was a very considerable novelist, the author of the Hornblower series about the Napoleonic Wars and all those qualities of courage, heroism and patriotism, which a century later caused disaster.” Read more...
Michael Howard, Military Historians & Veteran
C.S. Forester was a historical novelist, though this book, The General, may not count strictly as a historical novel because it was set in a period he himself lived through, the First World War. It was recommended to us by the late and great British military historian, Sir Michael Howard, as “a book that has been largely forgotten but which I very strongly recommend to anybody who wants to understand the First World War.” An added bonus is that it’s also reasonably short.
