The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
-- Sir William Francis Butler
Lambert's argument is based on real expertise in the documents of the time. Few know the sources better than he. His is a masterful piece of historical dissection, beautifully structured and written with real elegance..... this is quite a splendid book and one that it is hard to recommend too highly. -Geoffrey Till, Journal of Military History 1/2000