Now It Can Be Told · Character
Sir Herbert Plumer
A general Gibbs credits with sound judgment and sober choice of men, whose Second Army is quietly shaped by a chief of staff's organizing genius.
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Commander of the Second Army, given credit for sound judgment in general ideas and choice of men, though the narrator cannot assess his exact share.
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Plumer commands the Second Army, but Gibbs is careful: the real brain, he suspects, is Sir John Harington, whose battle briefings reveal war as a science of gunfire, gas, and morale. Plumer stands as the steady…
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- Other
Character groups
- British commanders and staff
- Key military and civilian figures
- Miscellaneous characters, units, and references
- Protagonist
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