Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Damaged dust jacket. Rare to have a dust jacket at all.
Blurb: “It was George Bernard Shaw in The Devil's Disciple who dubbed this luckless and beloved
British Commander, “Gentleman Johnny." In his own day they called him "Handsome Jack." His soldiers adored him. He wrote comedies and had at least one hit to his credit. Neither a great dramatist nor a great soldier, he was a gentleman with clean hands in an age of corrupt politics. He was keen on his soldiering job, and a splendid fire-eater; and he was also gambler and sensualist, gallant and philanderer. He enjoyed life. His men, his friends, his wife, his mistress, all loved him. Horry Walpole laughed at him, but Burke and Fox and Sheridan and Boswell were his friends.
F. J. Hudleston, librarian of the British War Office and author of Warriors in Undress, a book which dares to be outrageously funny about wars
and the men who have waged them, has handled the exceptional material at his command in a debonair spirit. Sure of his facts, he is never oppressed by them. He is gay, modern, un-conventional-above all, interesting. “