This is the gripping fast-paced story of Bill Miller,the son of a Wiltshire shopkeeper,who wins a battlefield commission in WW l and then transforms himself in the intervening years into the dedicated and controversial general whose courageous ingenuity allows the British to escape annihilation at Dunkirk. High Command is packed with fascinating insights into military tactics and discipline.It combines a brilliantly penetrating dissection of characters with tense and gripping accounts of action on and off the battlefield and ends in a blaze of glory.An action packed story with a touch of romance.
