Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry

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Channon, Henry (1987). Rhodes James, R. (ed.). Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Lord Wavell Given Hero's Funeral in Heat Wave Like Africa Desert". The Montreal Gazette. 8 June 1950. Archived from the original on 2 November 2021 . Retrieved 11 May 2013. In Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays ( public domain; public library) — the same indispensable volume that gave us the great philosopher’s ideas on death and the art of living— he writes: Wavell once again had the misfortune of being placed in charge of an undermanned theatre which became a war zone when the Japanese declared war on the United Kingdom in December 1941. He was made Commander-in-Chief of ABDACOM (American-British-Dutch-Australian Command). [54] If you’re accustomed to thinking of rhetoric as dealing only with fancy language, think again. Rhetoric is present in the plain style as much as in the high. One of the best-known figures, erotema, the

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It does help to keep in mind that, as Aristotle wrote, you have three forms of power over the reader: ethos, pathos and logos. That is, roughly: selling yourself, swaying the emotions and There are a great many poets not included that you might have expected. You will not see Pound, Auden, Eliot, many of the now regular, more modern poets of the early 20th Century or those of purely pastoral or natural bent. No Wordsworth, Clare or Edward Thomas. Any collection will have gaps and you may think there are many here but remember this is a selection of personal favourites that supported and inspired him throughout his military campaigns. Operations In The Western Desert from December 7th, 1940 to February 7th, 1942", sent to Secretary of State for War June 1941 and published in "No. 37628". The London Gazette (Supplement). 25 June 1946. pp.3261–3269. Axelrod, Alan (2008). The Real History of World War II. Sterling Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4027-4090-9.Glynn, Irial (2007). "An Untouchable in the Presence of Brahmins: Lord Wavell's Disastrous Relationship with Whitehall During His Time as Viceroy to India, 1943–7". Modern Asian Studies. 41 (3): 639–663. doi: 10.1017/S0026749X06002460. S2CID 143934881. will want to tell you Y… Big Tobacco will want to tell you Z. But there’s something you can tell Big Tobacco…” Its conclusion can be given a sense of roundness and inevitability with

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In April 1938 Wavell became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) Southern Command in the UK. [43] In July 1939, he was named as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Middle East Command with the local rank of full general. [44] Subsequently, on 15 February 1940, to reflect the broadening of his oversight responsibilities to include East Africa, Greece and the Balkans, his title was changed to Commander-in-Chief Middle East. [45] Second World War military commands [ edit ] Middle East Command (incl. North and East Africa) [ edit ]An argument can be given gathering force by anaphora, for instance, where a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive sentences: “Big Tobacco will want to tell you X… Big Tobacco Wavell's daughter weds". Archived from the original on 28 January 2019 . Retrieved 27 January 2019. Wavell is buried in the old mediaeval cloister at Winchester College, next to the Chantry Chapel. His tombstone simply bears the inscription "Wavell". A plaque was placed in the north nave aisle of Winchester Cathedral to commemorate both Wavell and his son. [75] St Andrew's Garrison Church, Aldershot, an Army church, contains a large wooden plaque dedicated to Lord Wavell. [76] Family [ edit ]

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Wavell ( not a Lord when he put this collection together in 1943) said in his introduction that the poems were noted down as favourites by him and with the help of his family in reminding him of their favourites he would read and recite for them. Our War Leaders in Peacetime – Wavell in The War Illustrated, Volume 10, No. 237". 19 July 1946. p.213. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012 . Retrieved 11 May 2013. Wavell was a great lover of literature, and while Viceroy of India he compiled and annotated an anthology of great poetry, Other Men's Flowers, which was published in 1944. He wrote the last poem in the anthology himself and described it as a "...little wayside dandelion of my own". [68] He had a great memory for poetry and often quoted it at length. He is depicted in Evelyn Waugh's novel Officers and Gentlemen, part of the Sword of Honour trilogy, reciting a translation of Callimachus' poetry in public. [69] He was also a member of the Church of England and a deeply religious man. [70] Wavell was working at the War Office when Army officers refused to act against Ulster unionists in March 1914; the government was expecting Unionist paramilitary opposition to introduction of devolved government in Ireland. His letters to his father record his disgust at the government's behaviour in giving an ultimatum to officers – he had little doubt that the government had been planning to crush the Ulster Scots, whatever they later claimed. However, he was also concerned at the Army's effectively intervening in politics, not least as there would be an even greater appearance of bias when the Army was used against industrial unrest. [17] First World War [ edit ]

Operations In Iraq, East Syria and Iran from 10th April 1941 to 12th January 1942" published in "No. 37685". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 August 1946. pp.4093–4101. Wavell was given a number of assignments between the wars, though like many officers he had to accept a reduction in rank. In May 1920 he relinquished the temporary appointment of Brigadier-General, reverting to lieutenant-colonel. [28] In December 1921, he became an Assistant Adjutant General (AAG) at the War Office [29] and, having been promoted to full colonel on 3 June 1921, [30] he became a GSO1 in the Directorate of Military Operations in July 1923. [31] Heathcote, Tony (1999). The British Field Marshals 1736–1997. Barnsley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 0-85052-696-5. Prose does not scan like poetry. But it shares its effects. One of the most memorable lines in American history, for instance, is the clause in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” Wavell married Eugenie Marie Quirk, only daughter of Col. J. O. Quirk CB DSO, on 22 April 1915. [77] She survived him and died, as Dowager Countess Wavell, on 11 October 1987, aged 100 years. [78]

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a b c d e "Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell". Unit histories. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012 . Retrieved 11 May 2013. or musically, the more it will feel like an organic whole. Syntax can do much of the work of sense. But what makes Montaigne’s meditation so incisive — and such an urgently necessary fine-tuning of how we think of “curation” today — is precisely the emphasis on the thread. This assemblage of existing ideas, he argues, is nothing without the critical thinking of the assembler — the essential faculty examining those ideas to sieve the meaningful from the meaningless, assimilating them into one’s existing system of knowledge, and metabolizing them to nurture a richer understanding of the world. Montaigne writes:stand for [good thing]”— disguised as a piece of argument. Note how it is inflated for musical reasons by the extra syllables “he does about” and the repetition of “America’s”; Generals and Generalship: The Lees Knowles Lectures Delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1939. 1941. OCLC 5176549. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Raugh, Harold E. Jr. (2013). Wavell in the Middle East, 1939–1941: A Study in Generalship. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0806143057. Half a millennium before Mark Twain proclaimed that “substantially all ideas are second-hand” and long before we drained the term “curation” of meaning by compulsive and indiscriminate application, Montaigne observed: I think he ( Benito Mussolini) must do something, if he cannot make a graceful dive he will at least have to jump in somehow; he can hardly put on his dressing-gown and walk down the stairs again." [98]