The stalemate of the conflict irritates him as he receives greater and greater promotion yet finds himself ordering great numbers of regular soldiers to their deaths. While personally courageous and dedicated, Curzon is otherwise unexceptional: he serves as an officer like many others.
In terms of plot, The General follows the career of a professional soldier, Herbert Curzon, from his service as a junior officer in the Second Boer War through his experiences as a senior commander in the aforementioned First World War. The book centres on the titular general and portrays, among other things, the British Army's efforts to deal with the dilemma of trench warfare. Known for his Horatio Hornblower novels and 1935's The African Queen, Forester attempted in the work to portray the then recently finished conflict of World War I in a decidedly realistic though still narrative-based and compelling fashion. The General is a 1936 novel authored by writer C.
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