The General by C.S. Forester
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Overview: General Sir Herbert Curzon is not a brutal man or an uncaring one: simply a brave and honest but stubborn and unimaginative leader. For Forester, the tale of Herbert Curzon’s almost inevitable rise to high command, the senseless slaughters he directs and his eventual retirement to the life of an aged cripple in a wheelchair, is not about Curzon—it is about the attitudes and mores of the British Army and of British society more generally, the attitudes that (in Forester’s view) led to the appalling casualties and the horrors of the First World War.
For the author, to understand Herbert Curzon’s simple courage and determination to do his duty is to understand how men like Curzon, who were not by nature evil, were led to order the cream of their country’s manhood to sacrifice themselves in the pointless bloody slaughter of the Somme or Verdun or Gallipoli.
Genre: Historical novel
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