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Man of War
Bill Miller begins as a professional soldier shaped by the trenches of the First World War, where courage and tactical ability offer a path upward in an army still governed by class and convention. Over the next two decades his career carries him through imperial service in India and the political and military tensions of the interwar years, while his ambition repeatedly collides with senior officers who distrust his background and methods.
The Spanish Civil War and the approach of another European conflict test Miller on a larger scale, culminating in the crisis of 1940 and the British retreat to Dunkirk. Masters follows one officer across a generation of warfare, balancing battlefield command with the private cost of professional obsession and showing how an army—and the society behind it—changes between the two world wars.
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