Author: Greacen, Lavinia,
Title: CHINK - A Biography.
Description: Macmillan, London, 1989, 1st edn., xxi, 392pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., map in text, maps at endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper by Robert Ballagh, a well research biography of Major-General Eric (Chink) Dorman-Smith, an original thinker who, as a result, was loathed by some of his more traditional contemporaries. His admirer's point out the originality of his plan of attack used by General Richard O'Connor at Sidi Barrani to defeat the Italian army and his use of Ultra decrypts that enabled Auchinleck to stop Rommell during the first Battle of Alamein, although failing to please his mediocre seniors who later took their revenge. The author shows how at Anzio his Divisional General, 'a man of plodding mediocrity who had been the victim of Chink's wit at the Staff College', worked behind his back to get him sacked. She also covers his friendship with Ernest Hemmingway, his disillusionment with the British establishment, his return the the family estate in Ireland and his assumption of an Irish name O'Gowan, and his involvement with the IRA as a military advisor, edges tanned, dujstwrapper: lightly rubbed at tail of spine, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 army rommel alamein dorman o'gowan


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