Love the Histories'.
Am continuously informally studying them through 'The Great Courses', on DVD from them.
Admired persons.......
T.E. Lawrence.....he tried to unify the Arab States, but he didn't count on the interfering politicians. What happened since WWI, & the ensuing Treaty of Versailles, is still resonating in the Middle East to this very day.
Sir John Monash........if Billy Hughes hadn't hated him so much, because Monash was a Jew, the tactics' Monash wanted to use on the Western Front would've ended WWI, TWELVE MONTHS' earlier!
Hughes stopped him at every turn, had him recalled to Australia, so the War went on for an extra year, & tens of thousands of service personnel died, thanks to a little man, with the usual 'small man' syndrome.
He even refused to promote Monash to rank of Field Marshal, which he had earned, & deserved!
What a snivelling little jealous person Hughes was! A total disgrace to be a PM.