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Churchill and His Generals. By Raymond Callahan. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7006-1512-4. Photographs. Notes. Index. Pp. x, 310. $4.95.
In 1991 John Keegan published an edited collection of essays, Churchill's Generals, with a title deceptively similar to Professor Callahan's book. A comparison of the two works shows the ways in which the study of the British army's combat capability in the second World War has developed in the intervening years. The approach of Keegan and his collaborators was resolutely biographical. Callahan's book reflects the structuralist approach which has become more common over the last decade. Although he certainly does not ignore the significance of personalities-how could he when two of his main protagonists were men of such titanic egos as Churchill and Montgomery-he places them...