Taking Command

David Richards Press Reviews

'This is a most engaging account, both characteristically direct and controversial, of a life of soldiering from the post-imperial era, through the Cold War, Iraq and Afghanistan right up to the age of Jihadists and cyber-warfare.'

- Antony Beevor

'Not for many years has there been a CDS with comparable operational experience, nor one who has thought as much about defence.'

-Allan Mallinson, Times Defence Correspondent

'A brilliant memoir by the UK's most significant soldier-scholar-statesman of the new century; a compelling, thoughtful, and thought-provoking read by one who played a key role in virtually every military endeavor of the past decade'

- General David H. Petraeus (U.S. Army, retired)

'He has seen just about every combat zone since Sandhurst. One is in the hands of a consummate soldier.'

-Frederick Forsyth