“He (Archibald, Lord Wavell, former Viceroy of India) was intellectually formidable , though he did not parade the fact. In 1938 he gave the Lees Knowles Lectures at Cambridge on ‘Generals and Generalship’. Rommell carried a copy of the lectures with him throughout the North Africa campaign.” North Africa Campaign Book:Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India Source: Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India