Alistair Irwin

Duty and pleasure in happy tandem

issue 21 January 2006

  • A British Achilles

    Lorna Almonds Windmill

    Pen & Sword, pp. 278

I have never met the 2nd Earl Jellicoe. I wish I had because to shake hands with this remarkable man, the Achilles of the title, would be to shake hands with honour, courage and duty fulfilled. If the author has him right it would also be to shake hands with wisdom, fun and a whiff of the piratical.

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