... Leadership’.John had a colourful early career. He served as a platooncommander in the Scots Guards in Egypt, and then became the only national serviceman to serve in the Arab Legion,ixAbout the authorArt ... qualifiedas a deckhand and sailed an Arctic trawler to Iceland. He thenworked as a hospital orderly in the operating theatre of a hospital.After being senior lecturer in military history and adviser ... clue.‘Experience has shown,’ wrote Edgar Allan Poe, ‘and a truephilosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger,portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.’That is a great reason...