I. An Ancestry of heroes (1750-1885) --
II. Childhood (1885-1903) --
III. The Making of an officer (1904-1909) --
IV. Junior cavalry officer (1909-1917) --
V. World War I (1917-1918) --
VI. The Interwar years (1919-1939) --
VII. Prelude to war (1939-1942) --
VIII. The War in the Mediterranean : Casablanca to Messina (1942-1943) --
X. Normandy to the Rhine (1944-1945) --
XI. An Unsoldierly death (1945).