HARDCOVER
 
The Soldiers' General: Lieutenant General Sir George Lea
 
The subject of the biography, Lieutenant General Sir George Lea, is one of the lesser-known post WW2 Far East counter insurgency specialists. Lea played a significant role in the Malayan Emergency in the mid 1950s when commanding 22 Special Air Service Regiment and then in the Indonesian Confrontation in the mid 1960s as Director of Operations. He was very much a “soldiers' general” who, through his fantastic people skills, and leadership qualities could always bring the best out of those around him. 
 
The book will cover the many “ups and downs” of his career, from the nadir of commanding one of the Parachute Battalions at Arnhem, where he was captured barely 24 hours after dropping, to - probably his greatest success - bringing the Indonesian Confrontation, against a vicious guerrilla enemy, to a successful conclusion. It’s a story about the leadership of men engaged in the most demanding of operational tasking, special forces work.