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John Monash.(Letter to the editor)

Quadrant

| September 01, 2008 | Rule, Chris | COPYRIGHT 2008 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SIR: Thank you for publishing the article "The Fox and the Hedgehog" by Simon Caterson (April 2008).

I note that he quotes Lloyd George's description of Monash "as the only soldier of the First World War with the necessary qualities of leadership". A.J.P. Taylor, in the same vein, said in his book The First World War: An Illustrated History that the Australians "possessed in Sir John Monash the only general of ...

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