A Study in Leadership: Field Marshal Cavan - The Reluctant Chief, 1865-1946

by Simon Doughty

Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, was a Grenadier Guardsman who served in the Boer War, later writing '..we heard as many bullets in the whole war as we heard in one day of the 1915-16 battles'. He retired in 1912 to be Master of the Hertfordshire Hunt, where he might have stayed had it not been for the outbreak of war in 1914. He commanded a brigade, then the Guards Division, where he took the young Prince of Wales under his wing, and later an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 191333614X
• ISBN13: 9781913336141
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 256 Pages