Connell, John. Wavell: Scholar and Soldier. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1965. First American Edition. [10007]
Black hardback with dust jacket, clean text, light wear to binding & jacket, dj now in a clear wrapper. 574 pp., illustrated, with extensive index. Good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover.
"This absorbing book takes the story of Wavell's life from his youth to the time when he handed over command in the Middle East to go to India as Commander-in-Chief. It describes his early years of soldiering with the Black Watch in India and during the South African war, learning Russian in Moscow before 1914, as a staff officer in France, and with this hero Allenby in Palestine. It traces his career between the wars, when he became a commander of authority and dignity..." The biography continues through the beginning of WWII, when he commanded the huge Middle East theater.