While A.J.P. Taylor's famous assessment of John Monash was that he was the sole general of creative originality in World War I, the word 'creative' here is misleading. The real measure of Monash's celebrated genius, as Grantlee Kieza frequently points out in this massive tome, was that he learnt, not without mistakes, how to maximise every tool he was given in an integrated way. He was brilliantly ... (read more)
John Ramsland
John Ramsland is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Newcastle. He now specialises in historical biography and is at present working on the life of non-fiction Australian author Paul Brickhill.