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My father knew Lord Wavell well. He admired him and believed he was a more honourable man than Mountbatten. This book reminded me of many happy hours of British Imperial discussion: Martin Frost – reviewer.

Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, (5 May 1883 – 24 May 1950) was a senior officer of the British Army. He served in the Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the First World War, during which he was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres. In the Second World War, he served initially as Commander-in-Chief Middle East, in which role he led British forces to victory over the Italians in western Egypt and eastern Libya during Operation Compass in December 1940, only to be defeated by the German Army in the Western Desert in April 1941. He served as Commander-in-Chief, India, from July 1941 until June 1943 (apart from a brief tour as Commander of ABDACOM) and then served as Viceroy of India until his retirement in February 1947.

Review: Volume 1 of Professor John Connell’s 2 volume study of Archibald Wavell, 1st earl of Wavell. This volume deals with Wavell’s career up to June 1941 when, unable to deal with Churchill the way others (Monty?) did, he was replaced by Auchinleck in the Western Desert. A well written, well researched sympathetic volume by the author who is obviously a fan but who retains objective record. Wavell was a gentleman of the old school. Equally at home reading and writing poetry as planning a campaign in the deserts of Libya and Egypt. For the serious student of war, Britain’s relationship with the Middle East and the sustaining question as to why and how that region threw up so many giants in 2 wars. With detailed sources and index this is also for the general reader. 5 stars.
In June 1941 WSC sent Wavell to India, replacing The Auk. This period and to the end of Wavell’s life is dealt the with in Connell’s 2nd volume – Wavell – Supreme Commander 1969.