Eric Dorman-Smith

Eric "Chink" Dorman-Smith, during World War II, was a Commandant of the Middle East Staff College[?] who, by December 1940, was sent as an adviser to Major-General O'Connor and the Western Desert Force. Dorman-Smith is credited with planning Operation Compass and with the discovery of a gap in the Italian lines south of Sidi Barrani. He was a godfather[?] to one of Ernest Hemingway's sons and "a practiced seducer of other men's wives" (1 - p.47[?]).

Quotes

• Basis Liddell-Hart[?]
  • "[Dorman-Smith is] the outstanding soldier of his generation."

References

• 1 -- The Battle of Alamein: Turning Point, World War II[?] by Bierman[?] and Smith[?] (2002)