Lieutenant-General Sir Leslie Morshead was one of Australia's most outstanding soldiers.  In WW2 on the Western Front, he won a reputation for being a martinet: he was not liked, or admired, by the other officers and the men that he commanded. Yet, as commanding officer of 33 Battalion, he achieved remarkable success. In WW2 his finest achievements were against the distinguished German general, Erwin Rommel, at Tobruk and at El Alamein.  Those two victories considerably shortened the war and shaped its future conduct. Later, in the Pacific, Morshead became a successful corps commander, leading Australian troops in New Guinea and in Borneo. This is a candid account of perhaps the Australian Army's greatest ever field commander.