"A barren and unhappy period of my life"
A young man on the make: the Fourth Queen's Own Hussars
The jewel of empire: India, 1896-1897
A taste of war: the North-West Frontier, 1897
"Alarm bells throughout Europe"
First lord of the admiralty
"Damn the Dardanelles! They will be our grave"
"A hopelessly obsolete, old-fashioned warrior"
The loneliest man in Britain
Disaster in Flanders fields
"What a summer to waste on war"
The president and the "former naval person"
Mediterranean misadventures
Chickens roosting in the Far East
The quest for generalship
Alamein: the turning point
Amid the ruins of Carthage
The strategic air campaign
Epilogue : The last farewell
