A very odd book indeed. Ms Morris (formerly Mr James Morris) is infatuated with the Phizz of the First Sea Lord Jackie Fisher. The book endeavours to explain how wonderfully interesting he was, what a whizzy life he had and how it all came apart after the Dardanelles. The trouble with infatuation is that it is terribly hard to describe ("wonderful" or "sensuous" means very little), and it is beyond Ms Morris' Muse. [Rebecca West the novelist could do it better, describing why she, as a hot babe, had an affair with old fart H.G.Wells she said "Because his skin smelled of honey", as good a description of a pheromone we are likely to see]. Perhaps if you find slightly deranged and very talented homonocules exciting you too will respond to Jackie. I did not. Without the belief in the subject the rest of the book is a little light and impressionistic in structure. Not one for the navalist I believe. More Book Reviews The Wars of Napoleon The Military Revolution In The Sixteenth Century In Search of The Dark Ages The Viking Art of War The Wars Of Frederick the Great Suleyman The Magnificent And His Age The Hundred Years War For Morocco Battle Tactics of Napoleon and his Enemies Russia's Military Way To The West Fisher's Face Stephen And Matilda: The Civil War of 1139-53 The Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign Swiss Regiments a L'Étranger The Italian Reverse At Adowa Back to Perfidious Albion #92 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1996 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com