CALLWELL, SIR CHARLES EDWARD. Life of Sir Stanley Maude, lieutenant-general. il *$6 Houghton
(Eng ed 20–14053)
“This official biography of the conqueror of Bagdad, who died during the fourth year of the war, was written by the British Director of military operations at the War office. General Maude was one of the small group of commanders brought to the front by the war who appealed to the popular imagination. Fortunately, his biographer is one of the leading military writers of our time. The book is inspiring, not merely as the life of a great soldier, but as a contribution to our knowledge of British military operations in Mesopotamia.” R of Rs
“As clear and sympathetic an account as any friend of General Maude’s could desire.” O. W.
+ Ath p239 Ag 20 ’20 680w Boston Transcript p1 D 4 ’20 1350w + R of Rs 62:670 D ’20 90w
“There is not too much Maude in the book, nor is there too much collateral history, just a happy combination of the two, an achievement which is by no means common in memoirs!”
+ Sat R 130:279 O 2 ’20 1000w
“Sir Charles Callwell is particularly to be congratulated on the justice and candour with which he has written this book. Eulogy at points where eulogy is undeserved is an offence in biography. It is misleading; it deprives the reader of the opportunities of learning the lessons which he might have learned from the truth; and in the last analysis it is unfair to the subject of the biography himself. Sir Charles Callwell, while making clear his intense admiration of Maude, succeeds in giving point to that admiration by admitting that Maude was not without his intellectual faults as a soldier.”
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