Chink

Chink Dorman-Smith remains a fascinating and controversial enigma.

British general and passionate Irish nationalist; revered by Auchinleck; sacked by Churchill; Hemingway's lifelong hero and Montgomery's villain, he was many things to many different people.

Chink is the acclaimed biography of the brilliant soldier who outwitted Rommel at the First Battle of Alamein and helped turn the tide for the British army - only to fall into disgrace and obscurity. It is the larger-than-life story of the man who would continue to inspire Hemingway's imagination, from A Moveable Feast to Across the River and into the Trees.

Lavinia Greacen vividly brings to life a man who defied convention, both in his private life and his public career, to become the most original military thinker of his time.