Soldier's Life
General Sir Ian Hamilton 1853 - 1947

By John Lee
December 2000
Macmillan
ISBN: 0333734440
292 pages, illustrated
$49.50 hardcover

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Ian Hamilton was one of the most successful soldiers of his generation, lauded for his forward thinking, his strategic brilliance and his ability as a leader of men. But today he is largely regarded as a failure whose ineptitude cost the Allies Gallipoli. In this riveting new biography, John Lee, an expert on the battles of the First World War, examines Hamilton's life and career and offers us a very different picture indeed.

Hamilton's career is an extraordinary link between the Victorian army and the army of the nuclear age. He was a reforming force, always embracing the modern, and was often quite remarkably prescient. A Soldier's Life is a vivid and compelling account of a truly extraordinary man, a man whose unjustly tarnished reputation is here given a new gloss.

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