Special Edition - Signed on 1st End Paper Looking back over his long and distinguished career, Major-General Spears has written a series of recollections of great charm and interest. He was the head of vital military missions in both world wars, but in this book he is concerned with more personal memories.
He recalls a boyhood largely spent in the beautiful countryside of France, and a young manhood in the Irish Hussars and then in the first World War. He tells some strange tales of that war and recounts some outstanding engagements in which the British took part. Finally he gives a reconstruction of quite extraordinary vividness of the battle of Poitiers as it came to him standing on the battlefield six centuries later.
His memories are presented in brilliant detail and suffused by the unmistakable warmth that springs from a genuine affection for the past.
