Good luck in your search Beirut,

I just couldn't think of the name - Liddell Hart! You are quite right, he wrote the biographies for Lawrence and Rommel, that is why I drew the comparison - this had skipped my mind and his name is always confused in my thoughts with Liddell & Scott, the two authors of the famous Classical Greek Lexicon.

I had no idea of the extent of his works, and I will be keeping an eye out for these also.

It is a bad habit of mine to always be searching for the primary source, the horse's mouth, and in doing so I have often remained ignorant of some marvellous secondary works of notable historians, especially those who have written in recent times. I must and will remedy this!

It is often very difficult in Australia, even now to find unbiased accounts of either of the world wars, and especially one can expect to find most books on WWI to involve solely Gallipoli, Amiens and the Somme, and WWII to be similarly favourable of Australian involvements.

Nonetheless, the books I have seen quoted by title in this thread have ensured me that some wonderful works exist which would appear to encompass everything worthy of record which occurred in these wars.