Alexander Fiskeharrison

I guarded Rudolf Hess

A review of Taking Command, by General David Richards, with a foreword by Max Hastings. A model four-star general takes us through his 40 years in the British army

  • Taking Command

    General David Richards, with a foreword by Max Hastings

    Headline, pp. 384

I had the misfortune to meet Lord Richards on probably the darkest day of his 42 years in the military. In July 2009 I went to visit the then Commander-in-Chief UK Land Forces in his office on the edge of Salisbury plain and we spoke about his career, and the army in general.

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