Nigel Jones

Win some — lose too many

Rather than battering away on the Western Front, we should have kicked in the back door through Italy or Salonica, according to Mallinson’s Too Important for the Generals

  • Too Important for the Generals: Losing and Winning the First World War

    Allan Mallinson

    Bantam, pp. 369

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