Morshead

Hero of Tobruk and El Alamein

• Author(s): David Coombes,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 308
• ISBN_10: 0195513983
  ISBN_13: 9780195513981
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , History / Australia & New Zealand , History / Military / General , History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General , History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Mediterranean Theater ,

Description:... "During the interwar years he divided his time between his love for his family, the army, and his career with the Orient Steamship Company. Morshead could have gone on to greater heights, but chose not to. David Coombes explores reasons why he refused Prime Minister Curtin's offer to become Commander-in-Chief and his antipathy towards politicians." "Drawing on previously inaccessible private records and recent scholarship, Dr Coombes gives a candid account of the Australian Army's greatest ever field commander and offers reasons why Morshead's career embodied qualities quintessential to the Australian military tradition: the tradition of the 'civilian in uniform' or citizen soldier."--BOOK JACKET.