General and historical
The soldier
Leadership
Leadership (Montgomery)
Officers
Intelligence
The Intelligence Officer
Art of warfare
The war in the air

"My sea had been black; black and grey with great lumps of roaring white water crashing over our bows to rush swilling along the lurching deck. Often I had stood, gloved hands gripping a rail or a stanchion, just gazing, awed by this immense world of black and brutal water. Northern waters had been our lot, and from the Western Isles of Scotland we had sailed out through the Atlantic, the Irish Sea, the North Sea, the Pentland Firth, the Skagerrak, the Kattegat, the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia. Nippy it had usually been, with rough weather the main feature, but there had been times of stillness, times of friendship, times of thoughtfulness, vigorous times, uncertain times, hilarious times and tomes of wonder and great beauty." in The Navy: 1939 to the present day, Max Arthur

General and historical The soldier Leadership Leadership (Montgomery) Officers Intelligence The Intelligence Officer Art of warfare

"My Lord, if I attempted to answer the mass of futile correspondence which surrounds me, I should be debarred from the serious business of campaigning. So long as I retain an independent position, I shall see no officer under my command is debarred by attending to the futile drivelling of mere quill-driving from attending to his first duty, which is and always has been to train the private men under his command that they may without question beat any force opposed to them in the field." (To the Secretary of State for War during the Peninsular Campaign)

The war in the air

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