Alistair Horne
A Twentieth-Century Gentleman
A British Achilles: The Story of George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe
By Lorna Almonds Windmill, with a foreword by Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor
Pen and Sword 256pp £19.99 order from our bookshop
Brave men were living before Agamemnon
And since, exceeding valorous and sage, …
But then they shone not on the poet’s page,
And so have been forgotten.
So wrote Byron. Had it not been for Lorna Almonds Windmill’s excellent biography, George Jellicoe – one of Britain’s most remarkable surviving heroes of the Second World War – might well have remained forgotten. He now shines brightly from her pages
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