During the Second World War, Byron Farwell (1921–1999) served as a captain of engineers attached to the Mediterranean Allied Air Force in the British Eighth Army area.
"[Mr. Farwell] reminds us how much of history has always been about
war. The figures he etches are Horatio Alger types with epaulets,
conventional men whom luck and daring raised to unconventional
situations. . . . Sparely but convincingly, Mr. Farwell conveys a
sense of the society they worked in, one that tolerated
eccentricity and excess but not transgressions of its male
mythology—in which riding and religion were crucial, along with
laudanum and chloral and stoic hardihood. Those who shun analyses
and learned footnotes, preferring a thundering tale well told—or
rather eight of them—should not miss this book."
*Eugen Weber - New York Times Book Review*
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