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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Claude Auchinleck, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, Frank Messervy, Dudley Russell, Harold Rawdon Briggs, Denys Whitehorn Reid, Thomas Wynford Rees, Douglas Gracey, Sir John Smyth, 1st Baronet, Edward Quinan, David Murray-Lyon, Walter Lentaigne, Francis Tuker, David Tennant Cowan, Charles Hamilton Boucher, William Archibald Kenneth Fraser, Mosley Mayne, Geoffrey Scoones, George Molesworth, Berthold Wells Key, Christopher Maltby, Rob Lockhart, Wilfrid Lewis Lloyd, James Bruce Scott, Philip Balfour, Reginald Arthur Savory, Charles Offley Harvey, Arthur Edward Barstow, Robert Cassels, Lewis Heath, Arthur Holworthy, Charles Joseph Weld, Donald Kenneth McLeod, Herbert Cecil Duncan, Alan Bruce Blaxland, Robert Harley Wordsworth, Sydney B. Pope, Roger Eustace Le Fleming, James Noel Thomson, Rupert Lochner. Excerpt: General Hastings Lionel "Pug" Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, KG, GCB, CH, DSO, PC ( - ) was a British Indian Army officer and diplomat, remembered primarily for his role as Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War and his service as the first Secretary General of NATO from 1952 to 1957. Ismay was born in India in 1887, but educated in the United Kingdom at the Charterhouse School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst. After Sandhurst, he joined the Indian Army as an officer of the 21st Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry. During the First World War, he served with the Camel Corps in Somaliland, where he joined in the British fight against the "Mad Mullah," Mohammed Abdullah Hassan. In 1925, Ismay became an Assistant Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence. After being promoted to the rank of colonel, he served as the military secretary for Lord Willingdon, the Viceroy of India, then returned to the Committee of Imperial Defence as Deputy Secretary...