Michael Arnold

Hollow Heroes: An Unvarnished Look at the Wartime Careers of Churchill, Montgomery and Mountbatten Michael Arnold

Publisher Marketing: The book reveals the truths behind the conventional images of three of Great Britain's primary military leaders during and immediately after the Second World War. In each case there was a totally different side to each man, which demonstrates that a great deal of their reputation was built on contrived results, deception and dishonesty. It examines the influence and impediment of class on the performance of the British Army in World War II, and quotes the views of the Americans that far too often there was an unwillingness among the British to base officer promotion on effectiveness rather than on social background; conforming was more important than performing, as anyone who has served in the British Army s ranks would agree. At the same time, Montgomery feared and was jealous of Patton, whose rate of advance was nearly always twice that of Monty s. The services of Field Marshals Wavell and Auchinleck, two of Britain s finest commanders of the war, were largely lost to Britain because of Churchill s consistent interfering in field matters and his need to contrive almost anything to remain in power after he had been responsible for the fall of Singapore. This book includes the bizarre case of Major-General Dorman-Smith, one of Britain s most brilliant original thinkers, who without reason was sacked by Churchill. Dorman-Smith was the tactician who had produced Britain s victory over Rommel at the first battle of Alamein, but his crime seems have been overachievement; an unforgivable sin in some eyes. Mountbatten s fumbling in India is also realistically portrayed in these pages, putting paid to the man for the century s overly embellished reputation."

Contributor Bio:  Arnold, Michael Raised the son of a farmer in small town Oklahoma, Mark Arnold has been writing for over 35 years. He has always been driven to write enabling his skills to mature to the level they are today. With his keen since of storytelling, Mark uses his extensive knowledge of end time prophecy to tell you what the world would look like if all of the end times conspiracy theories came together at once in his novel, The Inevitable. He has a keen ability to make you feel as if you are experiencing the end of the world today and he takes you into the millennium in The 7th Talisman. The Edge of Imagination makes you feel as if you are in heaven and was his most difficult to write, hence the name. Mark has been a student of end times prophecy for over 20 years. He has a small but growing FaceBook and Twitter pages with members from around the world. His website, www.apocalyptictruth.com is a great source for end times studies . He publishes a daily online paper where he includes daily headlines from all over the word that is linked on his website.